Re: Threads: monitors vs. primitives

From: scleary_at_[hidden]
Date: 2000-08-11 15:16:48

> . . .  The problem here, though, is 
> correctness.  An event based implementation is subject to the "lost 
> wakeup bug".  See http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/win32-cv-1.html 
> for a good article on the issue.

That *is* a good article!  I stand corrected.  One question: should our
definition of CV include a signal() operation?

> BTW, I'm not new to the concept of a monitor.

Neither am I, of course.  :)

        -Steve