Seems to me that I should take a look at the detail folder in the thread lib. ;-) Thanks you all for helpful suggestions, Christian On 7/29/05, Sohail Somani wrote:

scoped_ptr would be more appropriate I think.

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-----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Jason Stewart Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:01 AM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] How to manually lock and unlock a mutex?

Try

void foo() { shared_ptr lk; if (condition) lk.reset(new scoped_lock(mutex));

do something }

The smart pointer will automatically unlock when it goes out of scope.

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