CriticalSection Class Reference

A re-entrant mutex. More...

Inheritance diagram for CriticalSection:

Public Types
typedef GenericScopedLock< CriticalSection >	ScopedLockType
	Provides the type of scoped lock to use with a CriticalSection. More...
typedef GenericScopedUnlock< CriticalSection >	ScopedUnlockType
	Provides the type of scoped unlocker to use with a CriticalSection. More...
typedef GenericScopedTryLock< CriticalSection >	ScopedTryLockType
	Provides the type of scoped try-locker to use with a CriticalSection. More...

Public Member Functions
	CriticalSection () noexcept
	Creates a CriticalSection object. More...
	~CriticalSection () noexcept
	Destructor. More...
void	enter () const noexcept
	Acquires the lock. More...
bool	tryEnter () const noexcept
	Attempts to lock this critical section without blocking. More...
void	exit () const noexcept
	Releases the lock. More...

Detailed Description

A re-entrant mutex.

A CriticalSection acts as a re-entrant mutex object. The best way to lock and unlock one of these is by using RAII in the form of a local ScopedLock object - have a look through the codebase for many examples of how to do this.

In almost all cases you'll want to declare your CriticalSection as a member variable. Occasionally you may want to declare one as a static variable, but in that case the usual C++ static object order-of-construction warnings should be heeded.

See also

ScopedLock, ScopedTryLock, ScopedUnlock, SpinLock, ReadWriteLock, Thread, InterProcessLock

Member Typedef Documentation

typedef GenericScopedLock<CriticalSection> CriticalSection::ScopedLockType

Provides the type of scoped lock to use with a CriticalSection.

typedef GenericScopedUnlock<CriticalSection> CriticalSection::ScopedUnlockType

Provides the type of scoped unlocker to use with a CriticalSection.

typedef GenericScopedTryLock<CriticalSection> CriticalSection::ScopedTryLockType

Provides the type of scoped try-locker to use with a CriticalSection.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

CriticalSection::CriticalSection ( )

noexcept

Creates a CriticalSection object.

CriticalSection::~CriticalSection ( )

noexcept

Destructor.

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

Member Function Documentation

void CriticalSection::enter ( ) const

noexcept

Acquires the lock.

If the lock is already held by the caller thread, the method returns immediately. If the lock is currently held by another thread, this will wait until it becomes free.

It's strongly recommended that you never call this method directly - instead use the ScopedLock class to manage the locking using an RAII pattern instead.

See also

exit, tryEnter, ScopedLock

bool CriticalSection::tryEnter ( ) const

noexcept

Attempts to lock this critical section without blocking.

This method behaves identically to CriticalSection::enter, except that the caller thread does not wait if the lock is currently held by another thread but returns false immediately.

Returns

false if the lock is currently held by another thread, true otherwise.

See also

enter

void CriticalSection::exit ( ) const

noexcept

Releases the lock.

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

If the enter() 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

enter, ScopedLock

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

• juce_CriticalSection.h