Re: [Boost-users] [signals] Automatic connection management and MT

From: Timmo Stange (ts_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-05 12:56:44

Frank Mori Hess wrote:

> I'm noticing the mutex appears in the precompiled library part of the code.  
> A desirable design goal for the final implementation is for the user to be 
> able to put thread-unsafe signals in his single-threaded code and not have 
> to link to libboost_thread and other threading libraries.  It seems like 
> that would either require the mutex code be kept in the headers, in 
> classes templated by the thread-safety policy (probably partial template 
> specializations), or two separate precompiled library provided, one for 
> the thread-safe and one for the thread-unsafe signals.

Such a policy template parameter would probably make the whole library
header only anyway.

Regards

Timmo Stange