Scoped Locking

 This article is extracted from POSA2 as a reading note.

Scoped Locking is a pattern? I can't answer well until I read the associated portion of POSA2. I used this way to acquire and release a lock so normally.

The Scoped Locking C++ idiom ensures that a lock is acquired when control enters a scope and released automatically when control leaves the scope, regardless of the return path from the scope.

Define a guard class whose constructor automatically acquires a lock when control enters a scope and whose destructor automatically releases the lock when control leaves the scope. Instantiate instances of the guard class to acquire/release locks in method or block scopes that define critical sections.