Re: [Boost-users] threads and async questions and asnwers

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] threads and async questions and asnwers
From: Michael Powell (mwpowellhtx_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-21 16:40:12

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Victor Yankee
<victor.whiskey.yankee_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I have a thread with a class and its method that raises a "question" signal
> and needs to wait with a timeout for an "answer" signal.
>
> There are several worker threads, some of which may be connected to the
> question signal. The answer signal will be raised by a worker thread only if
> it knows the answer; it is possible that no worker thread knows the answer
> so no answer signal will be raised  (hence need for timeout). The question
> thread cannot know which worker thread to ask.

Sounds like a homework question to me. Besides which, the problem
statement pretty much spelled out where you likely need to focus.

> What is a good way to achieve this using boost 1.58 and/or C++11? I am using
> g++ 4.9 on 64bit ubuntu 14.04.
>
> Thanks,
> Vic
>
>
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