Lockable Class Reference

Inheritance diagram for Lockable:

List of all members.

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Detailed Description

Lockable interface.

This class is used as interface for the some synchronization objects. The public interface contains two methods:

• enter() - lock synchronization object,
• leave() - unlock synchronization object.

It is recommended to use Locker guard class instead direct enter()/leave() method calling.

See also:

Locker

Public Member Functions

• virtual void enter ()=0

  Lock synchronization object.
  

• virtual void leave ()=0

  Unlock synchronization object.
  

Protected Member Functions

• Lockable ()

  Trivial constructor.
  

• ~Lockable ()

  Trivial destructor.
  

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Lockable

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[inline, protected]

Trivial constructor.

~Lockable

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[inline, protected]

Trivial destructor.

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Member Function Documentation

void enter

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)

[pure virtual]

Lock synchronization object.

If synchronization object is not locked by another thread or process, then it will be locked.

If synchronization object is already locked by another thread or process, then this method waits for this object and lock it.

After synchronization object was locked it should be unlocked by leave() method.

Warning:

There is deadlock possible.

Implemented in CriticalSection.

void leave

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)

[pure virtual]

Unlock synchronization object.

This method unlocks the synchronization object locked by enter() method.

Implemented in CriticalSection.

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