owl::TCriticalSection::TLock Class Reference

This nested class handles locking and unlocking critical sections. More...

#include <owl/thread.h>

Inheritance diagram for owl::TCriticalSection::TLock:

Public Member Functions
	TLock (const TCriticalSection &)
	Use system call to lock the CRITICAL_SECTION object.
	~TLock ()
	Use system call to unlock the CRITICAL_SECTION object.

Detailed Description

This nested class handles locking and unlocking critical sections.

Only one thread of execution will be allowed to execute the critical code inside function f at any one time.

TCriticalSection LockF;
void f()
{
   TCriticalSection::Lock(LockF);
 
   // critical processing here
}

Definition at line 326 of file thread.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

TLock()

owl::TCriticalSection::TLock::TLock ( const TCriticalSection & sec )

inline

Use system call to lock the CRITICAL_SECTION object.

Requests a lock on the TCriticalSection object. If no other Lock object holds a lock on that TCriticalSection object, the lock is allowed and execution continues. If another Lock object holds a lock on that object, the requesting thread is blocked until the lock is released.

Definition at line 1275 of file thread.h.

References CONST_CAST.

~TLock()

owl::TCriticalSection::TLock::~TLock ( )

inline

Use system call to unlock the CRITICAL_SECTION object.

Definition at line 1285 of file thread.h.

References CONST_CAST.

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

• include/owl/thread.h