24 Oct
2008
24 Oct
'08
1:30 p.m.
From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Frank Mori Hess Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 9:21 AM
On Friday 24 October 2008 09:01 am, Chris Newbold wrote:
As an side, I'm curious why boost::mutex is implemented with basic_timed_mutex on Windows. It seems like there could be a dedicated mutex implementation using CriticalSection which, as far as I know, covers the Lockable concept.
TryEnterCriticalSection doesn't exist on windows 9x, and Lockable includes a try_lock() method.
We still have to support Windows 9x, huh? Oh well... :) -Chris