Mutex Class Reference

Public Member Functions
	Mutex ()
	~Mutex ()
void	acquire ()
bool	tryAcquire ()
void	release ()

Friends
class	Condition

Detailed Description

Protects resources from simultaneous access by multiple threads.

Only one thread at a time can own instance of this class.

This implementation is optimized for locking threads that are in the same process.

Note

It is NOT suitable for interprocess synchronization.

Recursive locking is NOT supported.

Definition at line 44 of file Mutex.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Mutex()

Mutex

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Initializes the instance.

~Mutex()

~Mutex

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Destructs the instance.

Member Function Documentation

acquire()

void acquire

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Acquires the lock ownership.

If the mutex is already occupied by another thread blocks the current thread and waits until it will be released by the owner.

release()

void release

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Releases the ownership (lock) and unblocks one of the waiting threads.

tryAcquire()

bool tryAcquire

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Tries to acquires the lock ownership.

Returns

false if the mutex is already occupied by another thread, otherwise - true.

Friends And Related Symbol Documentation

Condition

friend class Condition

friend

Definition at line 47 of file Mutex.h.