Re: Assignment with Adjust and Task Safety

[Jeremiah <jeremiah.breeden@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 2:50:56 PM UTC-4, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2016-03-22 15:36, Jeremiah wrote:
> > I don't think atomic increment/decrement will fix this as the task
> > switch happens outside of both Adjust and Finalize. Is there some other
> > way to prevent this? I know at the higher level I can wrap
> > Shared_Pointer_A into a protected type to ensure the assignments and
> > reads from it are protected, but that is something normally out of the
> > scope of the Shared_Pointer_Type.
> 
> You add a mutex, global or of a narrower scope, and take it in Adjust 
> and Finalize before doing anything else with the pointer.

Sorry for the late reply, I have been sick.  Thank you (and all others) for the responses.  For those who were concerned, don't worry I wasn't planning on exposing smart pointers directly like that nor using them globally.  I was just trying to make sure I understood the mechanics (I feel like it is important to understand how things work even if they aren't the best way of doing something).