Re: [Boost-users] thread: condition::notify() does not require a lock - why?

From: Pete Chapman (p.chapman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-26 11:55:33

Thomas Costa wrote:
> The mutex ensures correctness even if not being held when the cond  
> variable is signalled/broadcast AS LONG AS the "state" being waited  
> on is only modified WHILE holding the mutex.

Thanks, it all makes sense now.  I also posted the question to 
comp.programming.threads and got some detailed responses. Apparently 
this sort of question comes up quite regularly...
Thank you for the explanation.