[Boost-users] boost::mutex over a socket

Hi guys...I've 2 thread and I would like that one of these performs a synchronous read, menawhile the other performs a synchrounous write...adn obviously they share the same socket.....the signature of the functions are the following: length=boost::asio::read(socket_,boost::asio::buffer(msg,sizeof(msg)), ec); boost::asio::write(socket_,boost::asio::buffer(msgToSend,sizeof(msgToSend))); socket_ is a private field of the classe Server. How can I use the mutex to perform concurrently and safetly these operations? Thanks..