Re: [Boost-users] scoped locks

From: Noel Yap (noel.yap_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-18 21:36:25

On 4/18/06, me22 <me22.ca_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> As usual when you want fancy scope control, you can use a pointer.
> One of the smart pointers to the lock would work nicely.

Or how about making a smart pointer itself manage the lock?  I
especially like Alexendrescu's LockingPtr, but rather than go with his
OOTB implementation, factor out the mutex into a wrapper class so you
end up with class implementors not caring about multi-threadedness and
clients explicitly choosing whether or not they want thread safety. 
For example, something like:

Lockable< MyClass > myClass;
LockingPtr< MyClass > myClassPtr( myClass );

Noel