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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
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  <title>mutex - Mutex</title>
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<body>
  <img src="../../../../boost.png" width="276" height="86" alt="C++ Boost">

  <h1 align="center">mutex - Mutex</h1>

  <h2>Introduction</h2>

  <p>detail/mutex.hpp provides several mutex types that provide a consistent
  interface for OS-supplied mutex types. These are all thread-level mutexes;
  interprocess mutexes are not supported.</p>

  <h2>Configuration</h2>

  <p>This header file will try to guess what kind of system it is on. It will
  auto-configure itself for Win32 or POSIX+pthread systems. To stub out all
  mutex code, bypassing the auto-configuration, <span class="code">#define
  BOOST_NO_MT</span> before any inclusion of this header. To prevent ODR
  violations, this should be defined in <strong>every</strong> translation
  unit in your project, including any library files.</p>

  <h2>Synopsis</h2>
  <pre class="code">
namespace details {
namespace pool {

// Only present if on a Win32 system
class Win32_mutex
{
  private:
    Win32_mutex(const Win32_mutex &amp;);
    void operator=(const Win32_mutex &amp;);

  public:
    Win32_mutex();
    ~Win32_mutex();

    void lock();
    void unlock();
};

// Only present if on a POSIX+pthread system
class pthread_mutex
{
  private:
    pthread_mutex(const pthread_mutex &amp;);
    void operator=(const pthread_mutex &amp;);

  public:
    pthread_mutex();
    ~pthread_mutex();

    void lock();
    void unlock();
};

// Present on all systems
class null_mutex
{
  private:
    null_mutex(const null_mutex &amp;);
    void operator=(const null_mutex &amp;);

  public:
    null_mutex();
    ~null_mutex();

    static void lock();
    static void unlock();
};

// This will be one of the types above
typedef ... default_mutex;

} // namespace pool
} // namespace details
</pre>

  <h2>Semantics</h2>

  <table border align="center" summary="">
    <caption>
      <em>Symbol Table</em>
    </caption>

    <tr>
      <th>Symbol</th>

      <th>Meaning</th>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td class="code">Mutex</td>

      <td>Any type defined in this header</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td class="code">t</td>

      <td>value of type <span class="code">Mutex</span></td>
    </tr>
  </table><br>

  <table border align="center" summary="">
    <caption>
      <em>Requirements satisfied by <span class="code">mutex</span></em>
    </caption>

    <tr>
      <th>Expression</th>

      <th>Return Type</th>

      <th>Assertion/Note/Pre/Post-Condition</th>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td class="code">m.lock()</td>

      <td>not used</td>

      <td>Locks the mutex</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td class="code">m.unlock()</td>

      <td>not used</td>

      <td>Unlocks the mutex</td>
    </tr>
  </table>

  <p>Each mutex is always either owned or unowned. If owned, then it is owned
  by a particular thread. To "lock" a mutex means to wait until the mutex is
  unowned, and then make it owned by the current thread. To "unlock" a mutex
  means to release ownership from the current thread (note that the current
  thread <strong>must</strong> own the mutex to release that ownership!). As
  a special case, the <span class="code">null_mutex</span> never waits.</p>

  <h2>Dependencies</h2>

  <p>May include the system headers <span class=
  "code">&lt;windows.h&gt;</span>, <span class=
  "code">&lt;unistd.h&gt;</span>, and/or <span class=
  "code">&lt;pthread.h&gt;</span>.</p>

  <h2>Future Directions</h2>

  <p>This header will eventually be replaced by a Boost multithreading
  library.</p>
  <hr>

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  <p>Revised 
  <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->05
  December, 2006<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="38516" --></p>

  <p><i>Copyright &copy; 2000, 2001 Stephen Cleary (scleary AT jerviswebb DOT
  com)</i></p>

  <p><i>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
  accompanying file <a href="../../../../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>
  or copy at <a href=
  "http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)</i></p>
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