Re: [Boost-users] [Intrusive] Using a mutex-guarded smart pointer to achieve thread-safety

El 22/09/2011 4:23, Ioannis Papadopoulos escribió:

Hi,

I was looking over Boost.Intrusive and specifically the section regarding smart pointers.

I am mostly interested in the linked lists, so I don't have any need for size(); auto-unlink however is extremely useful to me.

If I replace the default pointer with my thread-safe smart_ptr-like type (for example a wrapper that instead of doing reference counting, it guards the pointers with a mutex), do you think that the resulting intrusive container will be thread-safe?

I don't think so, making pointer operations atomic does not convert container operations atomic. Ion