I am trying to create a timed scoped lock on mutex. I thought following api from boost could help but I am having hard time finding some sample code as reference to use it.
scoped_lock(mutex_type & m, const boost::posix_time::ptime & abs_time);
I want to do it something like this,
scoped_lock<interprocess_mutex> lock (_mutex, ? /* lock for 200 ms max */ ) ;
My question is how to create a posix_time::ptime object of duration 200ms. I tried to create time_duration object but their is no constructor that accepts it straight forward way.
boost::posix_time::time_duration td = boost::posix_time::milliseconds(200);
Can someone help me understand how it works please?