Mutex Class Reference

Mutex support. More...

#include <yateclass.h>

Inheritance diagram for Mutex:

Public Member Functions
	Mutex (bool recursive=false, const char *name=0)
	Mutex (const Mutex &original)
	~Mutex ()
Mutex &	operator= (const Mutex &original)
virtual bool	lock (long maxwait=-1)
virtual bool	unlock ()
virtual bool	locked () const
const char *	owner () const
bool	recursive () const
Public Member Functions inherited from Lockable
virtual	~Lockable ()
virtual bool	check (long maxwait=-1)
virtual bool	unlockAll ()

Static Public Member Functions
static int	count ()
static int	locks ()
static bool	efficientTimedLock ()
Static Public Member Functions inherited from Lockable
static void	wait (unsigned long maxwait)
static unsigned long	wait ()
static void	startUsingNow ()
static void	enableSafety (bool safe=true)
static bool	safety ()

Friends
class	MutexPrivate

Detailed Description

Mutex support.

A simple mutual exclusion for locking access between threads

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Mutex ( bool  recursive = false, const char *  name = 0  )

explicit

Construct a new unlocked mutex

Parameters

recursive	True if the mutex has to be recursive (reentrant), false for a normal fast mutex
name	Static name of the mutex (for debugging purpose only)

Mutex

(

const Mutex &

original

)

Copy constructor, creates a shared mutex

Parameters

original

Reference of the mutex to share

~Mutex

(

)

Destroy the mutex

Member Function Documentation

static int count ( )

static

Get the number of mutexes counting the shared ones only once

Returns

Count of individual mutexes

static bool efficientTimedLock ( )

static

Check if a timed lock() is efficient on this platform

Returns

True if a lock with a maxwait parameter is efficiently implemented

virtual bool lock ( long  maxwait = -1 )

virtual

Attempt to lock the mutex and eventually wait for it

Parameters

maxwait

Time in microseconds to wait for the mutex, -1 wait forever

Returns

True if successfully locked, false on failure

Implements Lockable.

virtual bool locked ( ) const

virtual

Check if the mutex is currently locked - as it's asynchronous it guarantees nothing if other thread changes the mutex's status

Returns

True if the mutex was locked when the function was called

Implements Lockable.

static int locks ( )

static

Get the number of currently locked mutexes

Returns

Count of locked mutexes, -1 if unknown (not tracked)

Mutex& operator=

(

const Mutex &

original

)

Assignment operator makes the mutex shared with the original

Parameters

original

Reference of the mutex to share

const char* owner

(

)

const

Retrieve the name of the Thread (if any) holding the Mutex locked

Returns

Thread name() or NULL if thread not named

bool recursive

(

)

const

Check if this mutex is recursive or not

Returns

True if this is a recursive mutex, false for a fast mutex

virtual bool unlock ( )

virtual

Unlock the mutex, does never wait

Returns

True if successfully unlocked the mutex

Implements Lockable.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• yateclass.h