[Boost-users] [Intrusive] Using a mutex-guarded smart pointer to achieve thread-safety

Subject: [Boost-users] [Intrusive] Using a mutex-guarded smart pointer to achieve thread-safety
From: Ioannis Papadopoulos (ipapadop_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-21 22:23:08

Hi,

I was looking over Boost.Intrusive and specifically the section 
regarding smart pointers.

I am mostly interested in the linked lists, so I don't have any need for 
size(); auto-unlink however is extremely useful to me.

If I replace the default pointer with my thread-safe smart_ptr-like type 
(for example a wrapper that instead of doing reference counting, it 
guards the pointers with a mutex), do you think that the resulting 
intrusive container will be thread-safe?

Has anyone attempted anything similar?

Thanks