Re: [boost] [threads] API Design Question

Subject: Re: [boost] [threads] API Design Question
From: vicente.botet (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-05 14:26:32

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From: "Alexander Bernauer" <alex_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [boost] [threads] API Design Question

> On the other hand those flags/counters are a safe way to solve the
> spurious wakeup problem in general. So why not having the library doing
> the job?  Not to mention the fact that spurious wakeups are a very hard
> to detect bug in case one forgets to loop or - even worse - there is a
> bug in the loop condition. 

Hi, 

could you explain how your design helps to debug a bug in the loop condition?

Vicente