Re: [boost] Re: Lock unification [move]

Howard Hinnant wrote:

<soapbox> However we do not currently prohibit code such as the following:

typedef mutex::scoped_lock MyMutex; mutex m; MyMutex my_mut(m, false);

void foo() { my_mut.lock(); }

void bar() { my_mut.unlock(); }

int main() { foo(); bar(); }

No, a lock is not a mutex, because a mutex is inter-thread, and a lock is thread-local (don't worry, I've been that same road myself, but Bill Kempf enlightened me).