32 Thread support library [thread]

32.5 Mutual exclusion [thread.mutex]

32.5.5 Locks [thread.lock]

32.5.5.1 General [thread.lock.general]

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A lock is an object that holds a reference to a lockable object and may unlock the lockable object during the lock's destruction (such as when leaving block scope).
An execution agent may use a lock to aid in managing ownership of a lockable object in an exception safe manner.
A lock is said to own a lockable object if it is currently managing the ownership of that lockable object for an execution agent.
A lock does not manage the lifetime of the lockable object it references.
[Note 1:
Locks are intended to ease the burden of unlocking the lockable object under both normal and exceptional circumstances.
— end note]
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Some lock constructors take tag types which describe what should be done with the lockable object during the lock's construction.
namespace std { struct defer_lock_t { }; // do not acquire ownership of the mutex struct try_to_lock_t { }; // try to acquire ownership of the mutex // without blocking struct adopt_lock_t { }; // assume the calling thread has already // obtained mutex ownership and manage it inline constexpr defer_lock_t defer_lock { }; inline constexpr try_to_lock_t try_to_lock { }; inline constexpr adopt_lock_t adopt_lock { }; }