Re: [Boost-users] [thread] Condition::notify_one, wait

From: Anthony Williams (anthony_w.geo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-08 16:03:24

Anteru <newsgroups_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Anthony Williams schrieb:
>> It is not possible to detect a spurious wake: if it was, then the
>> implementation would resume waiting. However, spurious wakes should be rare
>> occurrences.
>
> All right, maybe this could be added to the documentation somewhere.

I'll see if I can word things better.

>> Can you show me some code?
>
> Worker threads are supposed to die as soon as a null-job is encountered. 
> The worker threads call executeJob. It works with queueFull_.notifyAll 
> () in insertJob, but it fails with notifyOne -- note, this simply pass 
> through to the Boost::condition counterparts.

Could you show the code for Lock and Condition? Also, does this happen on
Windows, a pthreads platform or both?

Anthony
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