C++11 STL containers and thread safety

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Since the existing answers don’t cover it (only a comment does), I’ll just mention 23.2.2 [container.requirements.dataraces] of the current C++ standard specification which says:

implementations are required to avoid data races when the contents of the contained object in different elements in the same sequence, excepting vector<bool>, are modified concurrently.

i.e. it’s safe to access distinct elements of the same container, so for example you can have a global std::vector<std::future<int>> of ten elements and have ten threads which each write to a different element of the vector.

Apart from that, the same rules apply to containers as for the rest of the standard library (see 17.6.5.9 [res.on.data.races]), as Mr.C64’s answer says, and additionally [container.requirements.dataraces] lists some non-const member functions of containers that can be called safely because they only return non-const references to elements, they don’t actually modify anything (in general any non-const member function must be considered a modification.)

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