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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Bounded Buffer is hanging, tried all I can. (C++) Post 302733393 by digitalbrainiac on Tuesday 20th of November 2012 10:49:16 AM
Old 11-20-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
If you lock the global-lock, they try and fail to get data, both will stay locked until the writer adds more -- which it can't because the global lock is stuck locked.

For single-reader and single-writer, just two semaphores should do -- one for read, one for write. Keep the read and write separate and they shouldn't stomp on each other.

Procedure for writing:
1) Wait on write-sem
2) Add data to array
3) Increment and wrap write position
4) Post on read-sem

Procedure for reading:
1) Wait on read-sem
2) Copy element from array
3) Increment and wrap read position
4) Post on write-sem

If you want these to work with multiple readers or multiple writers, you will need a global mutex around items 2 and 3, but only lock the global mutex after you've waited on the read or write sem! Otherwise you'll deadlock(reader blocking for more data, writer can't add more data because the global mutex is locked).
I thought I was doing that essentially?

My Producer's mutex lock is after wait, with my Consumer's mutex lock after it's wait. Both have the unlock before the post.

Is it the type of semaphores I'm using are wrong? I've got empty initialized to buffer_size, which is 5, with full as zero?

(Although, I'm still not clear why this should work if I have more than 5 threads of each going. That would leave the extras in limbo or something?)
 

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pthread_rwlock_wrlock(3T)												 pthread_rwlock_wrlock(3T)

NAME
pthread_rwlock_wrlock(), pthread_rwlock_trywrlock() - lock or attempt to lock a read-write lock for writing SYNOPSIS
PARAMETERS
rwlock Pointer to the read-write lock to be locked for writing. DESCRIPTION
The function applies a write lock to the read-write lock object referenced by rwlock. The calling thread acquires the write lock if no other thread (reader or writer) holds the read-write lock rwlock. Otherwise, the thread blocks (that is, it does not return from the call) until it can acquire the lock. Results are undefined if the calling thread holds the read-write lock (whether a read or a write lock) at the time the call is made. The function applies a write lock as in the function with the exception that the function fails if any thread currently holds rwlock (for reading or writing). Results are undefined if any of these functions are called with an uninitialized read-write lock. If a signal is delivered to a thread waiting for a read-write lock, upon return from the signal handler, the thread shall resume waiting for the read-write lock as if it was not interrupted. RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, and return zero. Otherwise, an error number is returned to indicate the error (the variable is not set). ERRORS
If any of the following occur, the function returns the corresponding error number: [EBUSY] The read-write lock rwlock could not be acquired for writing because it was already locked for reading or writing. For each of the following conditions, if the condition is detected, the and functions return the corresponding error number: [EINVAL] The value specified by rwlock does not refer to an initialized read-write lock. [EDEADLK] The current thread already owns the read-write lock for reading or writing. AUTHOR
and were developed by X/Open. SEE ALSO
pthread_rwlock_init(3T), pthread_rwlock_destroy(3T), pthread_rwlock_tryrdlock(3T), pthread_rwlock_rdlock(3T), pthread_rwlock_unlock(3T). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
Pthread Library pthread_rwlock_wrlock(3T)
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