Le 22/02/13 04:45, Steven Watanabe a écrit :
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I plan to start using Boost Thread, but for now I have a multithreaded Win32 application that does not use boost.
Although the threads were not created with Boost Thread, can I use boost::mutex::scoped_lock to protect some new functions I write for the app? Yes. Synchronization primitives should work on any thread regardless of whether it was started using Boost.Thread or not. (I should
On 02/21/2013 05:22 PM, Jeff Dunlap wrote: point out that the main thread is never started by Boost.Thread, so this /has/ to work.) I confirm.
Example:
boost::mutex mutex;
void whatever() { boost::mutex::scoped_lock lock(mutex); // will this be protected even though the // thread was not created using Boost? }
The nested class scoped_lock is deprecated. Could I suggest you to use lock_guard/unique_lock classes? boost::lock_guardboost::mutex lock(mutex); Best, Vicente