Mutex Class Reference

A standard mutex, or mutual exclusion lock. More...

#include "pmutex.h"

Inheritance diagram for Mutex:

List of all members.

Public Member Functions
	Mutex (const char *name)
	Mutex (const string &name)
Static Public Attributes
static Mutex	_notify_mutex

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Detailed Description

A standard mutex, or mutual exclusion lock.

Only one thread can hold ("lock") a mutex at any given time; other threads trying to grab the mutex will block until the holding thread releases it.

The standard mutex is not reentrant: a thread may not attempt to lock it twice. Although this may happen to work on some platforms (e.g. Win32), it will not work on all platforms; on some platforms, a thread can deadlock itself by attempting to lock the same mutex twice. If your code requires a reentrant mutex, use the ReMutex class instead.

This class inherits its implementation either from MutexDebug or MutexDirect, depending on the definition of DEBUG_THREADS.

Definition at line 44 of file pmutex.h.

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

• panda/src/pipeline/pmutex.h
• panda/src/pipeline/pmutex.cxx
• panda/src/pipeline/pmutex.I