Re: [Boost-users] mutexes : Is this thread-safe ?

From: Jim Douglas (jim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-17 01:47:25

Dhanvi Kapila wrote:
> Hi :
>  I have this piece of code for mutex operations.  is this code 
> thread-safe ? I plan to use this code in threads...

If you stop and think about it for a second, the principal reason 
mutexes, condvars etc were invented was to synchronise the operation of 
separate threads competing for access to a common memory space.

So, it would be pointless having a mutex that was not thread safe. In 
the Unix world at least these synchronisation primitives are all defined 
in the _pthread_ library.

Jim