ReadWriteLock Class Reference

A critical section that allows multiple simultaneous readers. More...

List of all members.

Public Member Functions
	ReadWriteLock () throw ()
	Creates a ReadWriteLock object.
	~ReadWriteLock () throw ()
	Destructor.
void	enterRead () const throw ()
	Locks this object for reading.
void	exitRead () const throw ()
	Releases the read-lock.
void	enterWrite () const throw ()
	Locks this object for writing.
bool	tryEnterWrite () const throw ()
	Tries to lock this object for writing.
void	exitWrite () const throw ()
	Releases the write-lock.

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Detailed Description

A critical section that allows multiple simultaneous readers.

Features of this type of lock are:

• Multiple readers can hold the lock at the same time, but only one writer can hold it at once.
• Writers trying to gain the lock will be blocked until all readers and writers have released it
• Readers trying to gain the lock while a writer is waiting to acquire it will be blocked until the writer has obtained and released it
• If a thread already has a read lock and tries to obtain a write lock, it will succeed if there are no other readers
• If a thread already has the write lock and tries to obtain a read lock, this will succeed.
• Recursive locking is supported.

See also:

ScopedReadLock, ScopedWriteLock, CriticalSection

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

ReadWriteLock::ReadWriteLock

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throw ()

Creates a ReadWriteLock object.

ReadWriteLock::~ReadWriteLock

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throw ()

Destructor.

If the object is deleted whilst locked, any subsequent behaviour is unpredictable.

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Member Function Documentation

void ReadWriteLock::enterRead

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const throw ()

Locks this object for reading.

Multiple threads can simulaneously lock the object for reading, but if another thread has it locked for writing, then this will block until it releases the lock.

See also:

exitRead, ScopedReadLock

void ReadWriteLock::exitRead

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const throw ()

Releases the read-lock.

If the caller thread hasn't got the lock, this can have unpredictable results.

If the enterRead() method has been called multiple times by the thread, each call must be matched by a call to exitRead() before other threads will be allowed to take over the lock.

See also:

enterRead, ScopedReadLock

void ReadWriteLock::enterWrite

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const throw ()

Locks this object for writing.

This will block until any other threads that have it locked for reading or writing have released their lock.

See also:

exitWrite, ScopedWriteLock

bool ReadWriteLock::tryEnterWrite

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const throw ()

Tries to lock this object for writing.

This is like enterWrite(), but doesn't block - it returns true if it manages to obtain the lock.

See also:

enterWrite

void ReadWriteLock::exitWrite

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const throw ()

Releases the write-lock.

If the caller thread hasn't got the lock, this can have unpredictable results.

If the enterWrite() method has been called multiple times by the thread, each call must be matched by a call to exit() before other threads will be allowed to take over the lock.

See also:

enterWrite, ScopedWriteLock

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

• juce_ReadWriteLock.h