[boost] Re: Semaphores?

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-24 09:51:31

Jive Dadson wrote:
> 
> FYI, one of the inter-thread FIFO objects I implemented is quite like
> the one listed in
> 
> 
> http://www.boost.org/libs/thread/doc/condition.html#class-condition-synopsis
> 
> with one important difference: There are no while-loops.

So what? Why is it so "important"?

> In the version
> I am using, the buffer_not_full and buffer_not_empty objects are counting
> semaphores.  

How fascinating. ;-)

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alexander.