-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 July 2010, Philippe Vaucher wrote:
What's still to be done is worry about ownership of objects, my idea is to eventually somewhat model it after boost::shared_ptr that way it's easier to pass those around.
In which case you would wind up with something almost exactly like poet::monitor_ptr: http://www.comedi.org/projects/libpoet/boostbook/doc/boostbook/html/poet/mon... I found the resulting coupling of two orthogonal concepts (automatic locking and shared_ownership) to be unsatisfactory however, resulting in the generic_ptr library in the boost sandbox (undocumented), which allows composition of smart pointer types, plus facilities for writing generic code that manipulates pointers or pointer-like classes. generic_ptr::monitor<T*> m; would be like your thread_safe_ptr<T> and generic_ptr::shared<generic_ptr::monitor<T*> > sm; would be like a shared_ptr with automatic locking. I'm not trying to discourage your efforts however. I just want to make you aware of this code I wrote in case it is useful to you or someone else who wants to take up the problem (I don't spend much time on volunteer programming projects these days, and probably wont ever get around to trying to get any of this into boost). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkxQkUcACgkQ5vihyNWuA4VaYgCg30D6Cut9tgUpe1Ir03a46DPw gcgAn30kWE04F+0moq/eObgdbtxkLXN6 =K3Ph -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----