Re: [Boost-users] Good lock_guard<mytype> example

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Good lock_guard<mytype> example
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-01 19:22:16

AMDG

On 04/01/2013 04:12 PM, Michael Powell wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The pattern goes something like this: boost::lock_guard<mytype>
> guard(*this).
> 
> However, compiler is asking for a lock or unlock. I don't know what this
> is, or what it should be.
> 

You can't lock an arbitrary object.  You can only
lock a mutex.  If you really want to make an object
act like a mutex, see
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/doc/html/thread/synchronization.html#thread.synchronization.mutex_concepts.basic_lockable

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe