-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 November 2008 14:44 pm, Robert Ramey wrote:
I want to use the boost threading library in an application.
Looking through the documentation, I have a questions.
a) in the examples I find "boost::mutex::scoped_lock" but I don't find this in the documentation. It looks like this is called "lock_guard". What should I be doing here.
I believe the mutex::scoped_lock, etc. are only there for backward compatibility with the older Boost.Thread API.
b) Its not clear to me how unique_lock(Lockable l) is different than using lock_gard(..) or scoped_lock.
unique_lock is just more featureful/complex than lock_guard. You can't do a "try lock" or "timed lock" with a lock_guard, for example. Personally, I just use unique_lock. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJE1lH5vihyNWuA4URAiGvAJ9ksLtJCobAJjy9SazzVi0/NQemvwCffrmX DH0IdB3Qy6LY4LXJ0FwWNsg= =b+Te -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----