Re: [boost] Windows event objects still considered harmful?

From: Chris Byrne (chris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-17 17:33:37

Robin Boerdijk wrote:
> 
> "if the sender causes [signals] the event before the receiver waits for
> it, the receiver will remain delayed until the next event is caused
> [signalled]".
> 

But I struck this exact problem the other day with boost threads 
condition variables. Both notify_one() & notify_all() have no effect if 
there are no threads waiting:

http://boost.org/doc/html/condition.html

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Chris Byrne