Interesting, thanks for the explanaition. On 3-Apr-09, at 5:27 AM, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
Jean-Sebastien Stoezel wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply. Using conditon variables sounds quite heavy. You need to instantiate a mutex, a condition variable and a flag... Would there be anything wrong with instantiating a semaphore from the interprocess library to provide inter-thread synchronization? You can use a semaphore from the interprocess library to provide inter-thread synchronization. An interprocess semaphore is a thin wrapper around a posix semaphore if BOOST_INTERPROCESS_POSIX_SEMAPHORES is defined. Otherwise, a semaphore is emulated with a mutex and a condvar.
By the way, why isn't there any semaphore available in the thread library?
The boost.Crypto library is going to provide some.
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