On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 15:50 -0500, Dale Worley wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 13:59 -0500, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> > I think it's a bad idea because it makes the lock scope ambiguous.  If
> > I've got a block with an OsLock at the top, I don't want it to be
> > possible that anywhere in that block is not holding the lock (the
> > reverse bug from the one that bit you).
> 
> More exactly, the problem is that whether and where the lock is held is
> not determined by the static structure of the code.  That is what OsLock
> was designed to allow, and OsLock::release() violates that.  Within that
> context, I can replace ::release with OsUnLock with only a slight loss
> of efficiency, and have the lock structure be statically determined.
> With that structure, gotchas are still possible, but much less so than
> with manual locking.

Sorry - I'm not clear on what change that implies... could you put in a
code snippet like the one you started with to illustrate?

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