Re: [boost] [review] Dataflow Review starts today, September 1st

From: Stjepan Rajko (stipe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-01 14:00:49

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Giovanni Piero Deretta
<gpderetta_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Spurious wakeups are rare in practice. OTOH, what is more likely to
> happen is that the main thread could miss the wake-up if the worker
> thread managed to signal the condition variable before the main thread
> got to wait for it (remember that condition variables are stateless).
>

Wouldn't the mutex lock have taken care of that?  asio_server blocks
before notifying, and the main thread doesn't release the mutex until
getting to the wait point.

Stjepan