Re: [Boost-users] Need a help about boost.thread

From: Kirit Sælensminde (kirit.saelensminde_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-01 23:04:51

Steven Woody wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i am doing a job and considering if boost.thread can help.
> 
> ...
> 
> in breif, you can think my code in a way of producer/consumer pattern.
>  the producer is a rouine which will be called by many threads ( which
> are actaully connected sockets created by a listening socket ), and
> the consumer routine will be called by another thread ( which is
> actually GUI's main thread ).  what i expected is:
> 
> 1, only one producer can write to the shared data;
> 2, when a producer is writting, other producers have to busy waiting;
> and the GUI thread should immediately exit;
> 3, when GUI thread is reading, no producer can write to the shared data;

 From the sound of what you're trying to do then yes. This page shows 
how to make a queue and add and remove items from it.
http://www.boostcookbook.com/Recipe:/1234841

K