Hi guys,
I am creating two posix threads. I have some queries, hopefully you will help me out with them
1) How can I put a thread to indefinite sleep, for indefinite time period. I am familiar with this
for 5 second, how can I make it indefinite??
2) How can one thread wake another sleeping thread
3) Can one thread force another thread to go to sleep
Here is the program which is really bothering me, the idea is to have two threads, one filling the stack, and one emptying it. But I can't have one of my thread to wake up the other, after the stack is empty or full
See it for yourself!
If you can explain your points with a very small program, that would be so so nice of you.
Desperately waiting for your wonderful replies!!!!
As John said above, you probably want your thread to block not sleep. Calls like sleep send SIGALRM to the calling process, not just the thread. This means that you have to set up signal handling for the thread in question, and have all the other threads ignore
SIGALRM (example only, there are other signals)
Using a condition wait or a mutex wait is much more efficient.
Looks like you have a typical synchronization problem. One such you would like to use conditional variables to solve. Have a look at pthread_cond_wait, pthread_cond_signal, mutexes and related stuff.
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