id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
9614,Optional File Creation for boost::interprocess::file_lock,Peter LaDow <petela@…>,Ion Gaztañaga,"An optional overload (default second argument?) for the constructor to create and open the file to use for the file_lock would be very useful.

Currently, when creating a file lock, I typically do something like:

{{{
std::ofstream tmpf(/path/to/lock/file);  tmpf.close();
boost::interprocess:file_lock f_lock(/path/to/lock/file);
}}}

Say I have a class, such as:

{{{
class Foo
{
  public:
    Foo();

  private:
    boost::interprocess::file_lock f_lock;
};
}}}

I have to do the following in the constructor:

{{{
Foo::Foo()
{
  std::ofstream tmpf(/path/to/lock/file);  tmpf.close();
  boost::interprocess:file_lock tmp_lock(/path/to/lock/file);  

  f_lock.swap(tmp_lock);
}
}}}

This is cumbersome and limits usefulness in initializer lists.  Tweaking the constructor to something like:

{{{
file_lock::file_lock(const char *path, bool create = false);
}}}

Would allow a constructor to do the following:

{{{
Foo::Foo()
  : f_lock(/path/to/file/lock, true)
{
}
}}}
",Feature Requests,new,To Be Determined,interprocess,Boost 1.54.0,Problem,,,