class Mutex

Public Methods

• inline  Mutex ()
• virtual  ~Mutex ()
• inline void  lock ()
• inline void  unlock ()

Detailed Description

A mutex

To protect a critical section, you can use a mutex, which will ensure that only one thread at a time can lock it. Here is an example for a thread-safe random number generator:

 class RandomGenerator {
   Arts::Mutex mutex;
   long seed;
 public:
   long get() {
     mutex.lock();
     // do complicated calculation with seed here
     mutex.unlock();
     return seed;
   }
 };

constructor

[virtual]

destructor

locks the mutex

unlocks the mutex