Hi Christian, You can do: mutex::scoped_lock lock(m, condition); On 7/29/05, Christian Henning <chhenning@gmail.com> wrote:

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

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