[Boost-users] How to manually lock and unlock a mutex?

Hi there, I'm converting over our codebase to make use of the boost libs. Is there a way to manually lock and unlock a boost:mutex? Or, is there a conditional lock available? I know there is boost::mutex::scoped_lock that does it automatically. Here is code example that, I think, requires manual locking: void foo() { if( condition ) oMutex.lock; do something if( condition ) oMutex.unlock; } It might be that our code isn't designed very well for using boost::mutex. One solution would be: void foo() { if( condition ) { boost::mutex::scoped oLock( oMutex ); do something } else { do something } } Thanks, Christian