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

From: Steven Woody (narkewoody_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-03 12:44:34

On 10/2/07, Kirit Sælensminde <kirit.saelensminde_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 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
>

god! i found the boost's documentation is very hard to read, it is not
for a beginner! and, it seems if i want to use the mutex and lock, the
threads themself have to be created using boost, is it true?  it's
impossible to me since the threads had been created by other member of
our team and i am just writing library codes for them.

any other inputs will be highly appreciated!

-
woody