critical_section Class

A non-reentrant mutex which is explicitly aware of the Concurrency Runtime.

class critical_section;

Members

Public Typedefs

Name	Description
native_handle_type	A reference to a critical_section object.

Public Classes

Name	Description
critical_section::scoped_lock Class	An exception safe RAII wrapper for a critical_section object.

Public Constructors

Name	Description
critical_section::critical_section Constructor	Constructs a new critical section.
critical_section::~critical_section Destructor	Destroys a critical section.

Public Methods

Name	Description
critical_section::lock Method	Acquires this critical section.
critical_section::native_handle Method	Returns a platform specific native handle, if one exists.
critical_section::try_lock Method	Tries to acquire the lock without blocking.
critical_section::try_lock_for Method	Tries to acquire the lock without blocking for a specific number of milliseconds.
critical_section::unlock Method	Unlocks the critical section.

Remarks

For more information, see Synchronization Data Structures.

Inheritance Hierarchy

critical_section

Requirements

Header: concrt.h

Namespace: concurrency

See Also

Reference

concurrency Namespace

reader_writer_lock Class