Mutex Class Reference

#include <OnixS/FIXEngine/Threading/Mutex.h>

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

Friends
friend	ONIXS_FIXENGINE_API_DECL (class, Condition)

Detailed Description

Protects a resources from the simultaneous access by multiple threads.

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

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

Note

It is NOT suitable for use for the interprocess synchronization.

The recursive locking is NOT supported.

Definition at line 34 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 already occupied by the other 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 waiting threads.

tryAcquire()

bool tryAcquire

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Acquires the lock ownership if the Mutex is not owned by any thread. If the Mutex is already owned by the other thread, returns false. In either cases it doesn't block thread and quites immediately.

Friends And Related Symbol Documentation

ONIXS_FIXENGINE_API_DECL

ONIXS_FIXENGINE_API_DECL ( class , Condition  )

friend