Re: [boost] Do I need to use boost::mutex in deadline_timer?

If your implementation is single threaded, you don't need to worry about concurrency issues at all. All completion handlers will be scheduled to run sequentially. In other words, no need for a mutex. If you later decide to make your program multi-threaded (i.e. multiple threads per io_context) then the idiomatic method to control concurrency is to use an asio::strandasio::any_io_executor as your executor type for each io_enabled concern (such as a connection). In asio, (and net.ts) the strand is a special executor adapter that guarantees that although multiple completion handlers can execute concurrently through the *underlying executor*, they can only complete *sequentially* through the strand which is *adapting* that underlying executor. On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 at 11:54, Jupiter via Boost wrote:

Hi,

I used boost::asio::io_service for a single thread implementation but with multiple boost::asio::deadline_timer objects, because it is a single thread, I don't think I need to use boost::mutex to lock and unlock tasks running by deadline_timer, am I wrong about it?

Thank you.

Kind regards,

jupiter

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