Re: [Boost-users] question about threading library

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] question about threading library
From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-06 15:53:26

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On Thursday 06 November 2008 14:44 pm, Robert Ramey wrote:
> I want to use the boost threading library in an application.
>
> Looking through the documentation, I have a questions.
>
> a) in the examples I find "boost::mutex::scoped_lock" but
> I don't find this in the documentation.  It looks like this
> is called "lock_guard".  What should I be doing here.

I believe the mutex::scoped_lock, etc. are only there for backward 
compatibility with the older Boost.Thread API.

> b) Its not clear to me how unique_lock(Lockable l)
> is different than using lock_gard(..) or scoped_lock.

unique_lock is just more featureful/complex than lock_guard.  You can't do 
a "try lock" or "timed lock" with a lock_guard, for example.  Personally, I 
just use unique_lock.
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