/**
 * File:      Mutex.h
 * Project:   libvdr - classes taken from vdr-project
 * 
 * from "Video Disk Recorder":
 * 
 * Copyright (C) 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008 Klaus Schmidinger
 * 
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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 * 
 * The original author can be reached at kls@tvdr.de
 * 
 * The vdr project's page is at http://www.tvdr.de
 * 
 */
#ifndef MUTEX_H
#define	MUTEX_H

#include <pthread.h>

class cMutex {
public:
  cMutex(void);
  ~cMutex();
  void Lock(void);
  void Unlock(void);

private:
  pthread_mutex_t mutex;
  int locked;
  friend class cCondVar;
  };

// cMutexLock can be used to easily set a lock on mutex and make absolutely
// sure that it will be unlocked when the block will be left. Several locks can
// be stacked, so a function that makes many calls to another function which uses
// cMutexLock may itself use a cMutexLock to make one longer lock instead of many
// short ones.
class cMutexLock {
private:
  cMutex *mutex;
  bool locked;
public:
  cMutexLock(cMutex *Mutex = NULL);
  ~cMutexLock();
  bool Lock(cMutex *Mutex);
  };

#endif	/* MUTEX_H */