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Use of conditional locking mechanism

Asked by harish_dixit1 in Windows Vista, C++ Programming Language

Hi,

I am having a C++ function and i want to use mutex lock for the entire function only if certain condition is true. If that condition is false then i dont want to use mutex lock. Please suggest me simple wayu to do it.

Here problem i m facing is, that i am using my own mutext class which constructor and destructor is hadnlong locking and unlocking. So using this class will be more convenient for me other my code is having multiple return path and exception handlers. So using this class will avoid code redundancy and will increase correctness.

When i create object of this class then automatically it will lock the whole method. and whenever object will destroy it will unlock the mutex.

For example say my mutex class is: CMyMutexLock

But if i write such if condition in code then its scope will be limited to the if block only.

Is there any easy way so that by using #define i can achieve it?

#define LOCK CMyMutexLock obj;
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void f(bool bNeedToLock)
{
  if(bNeedToLock)
  //need to lock the mutex object
  CMyMutexLock obj;
 
 //remaining function code
}
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