Re: [Boost-users] Thread events

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-07 18:29:48

Johan 't Hart wrote:
> (I'm not that familiair with news servers, so this post might appear for
> the
> second time. I hope to get an answer though)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm quite a newbie in the boost world, and I read the documentation about
> boost::threads. Inthere I read that events were not included in boost
> because they were too error-phrone. That made me wonder how to do
> multithreading without events, for example, how do you make a thread wait
> for something to do without events? I don't know how to implement that
> with
> just mutexes.
> 
> Can someone help me?

You want either, http://www.boost.org/doc/html/barrier.html
Or, http://www.boost.org/doc/html/condition.html
Based on what you are trying to do.

And of course reading the FAQ, which points you to the rational for not 
having events... 
http://www.boost.org/doc/html/threads/rationale.html#threads.rationale.events

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