On Tuesday, 21 February 2023 16:02:11 PST Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-
Proposals wrote:
> I think 'lock_guard' and 'unique_lock' should be usable with atomic_flag.

Please don't use atomic_flag for locks, because:

> The constructor would do:
> while ( f.test_and_set() ) f.wait(true);

That is not a good implementation. It's neither a spinlock nor a futex.

You could argue that the constructor of this lock would Do The Right Thing.
The problem is that The Right Thing is to use a mutex, so just use a mutex or
a binary_semaphore.

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