Re: Lock/Unlock of ATL object from client

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Thu, 1 Jun 2006 09:53:58 -0700
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I would suggest flyweight object instead. When the object is
created it acquires the lock. All methods on that object then
are called with the lock acquired. Releasing the object releases
the underlying lock. Your main object would manufacture
such flyweights on behalf of its clients. None of the main object's
methods can directly access the protected resource. In order
to implementing the actual lock underneath you can use any of
the advices the others provided.

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"Brian Muth" <bmuth@mvps.org> wrote in message
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"dirk" <dirk.kapusta@reply_in_newsgroup> wrote in message
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Brian Muth wrote

Give each client their very own object. But declare one or more static
class
variables.


Thanks for the proposal but I doubt this will work in my scenario. The
shared
object is used to control access to a communication resource, e.g. RS232
connected to an RS485 network. The client may change some state of the
object before making a series of method calls. The state may affect how
these
calls are internally performed. The locking is also required to ensure no
other
client can interfere with the ongoing communication.
The client should use a helper object with automatic storage which does
the
Lock/Unlock in its ctor and dtor respectively.


Then why not trivially implement your own Lock/Unlock mechanism by using a
semaphore?

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