Thread-safe STL-compatible Wrapper Container

[Nordlöw]

Does the Boost C++ Libraries (www.boost.org) or any other library
offer a generalized STL-compatible container wrapper for making any
other STL-container thread-safe, typically by surrounding all member
functions with scoped_lock() and scoped_unlock().

/Nordlöw

 

[James Kanze]

Does the Boost C++ Libraries (www.boost.org) or any other
library offer a generalized STL-compatible container wrapper
for making any other STL-container thread-safe, typically by
surrounding all member functions with scoped_lock() and
scoped_unlock().

Why would anyone bother? It would be totally useless.

 

[Marcel Müller]

Does the Boost C++ Libraries (www.boost.org) or any other library
offer a generalized STL-compatible container wrapper for making any
other STL-container thread-safe, typically by surrounding all member
functions with scoped_lock() and scoped_unlock().

The concept of locking function calls will never make an iteration
thread-safe in a way that the result is well defined. Iterating over a
changing collection is intrinsically thread-unsafe.


Marcel