Re: [Threads-devel] shared_mutex documentation request

Subject: Re: [Threads-devel] shared_mutex documentation request
From: Fredrik Orderud (forderud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-08-13 09:02:36

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba
<vicente.botet_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I need to check the implementation it but I suspect that there is no
> priority between readers and writers. See
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2406.html#shared_mutex_imp
> for an explanation (This link is given here
> /libs/thread/doc/html/thread/synchronization/tutorial.html).
>
>> Would it be possible to extend the shared_mutex documentation to also
>> cover some implementation details about the reader vs. writer
>> prioritization scheme (or similar)?
>
> Does the previous link respond to your expectations?

Thank you Vicente for a very informative answer. Do you think it would
be possible somehow to extend the shared_mutex reference documentation
with a sentence about the (lack of) prioritization policy, so that the
end-users (like me) more easily can access this important information?

Thanks in advance,
Fredrik