From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-12-18T01:48:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Using threads to show progress

On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:52:26 am Brian Candler wrote:
> Piyush Ranjan wrote:
> > How about using a mutex synchronize block around queue.push ? Would that
> > solve the potential race conditions we are looking at here ?
> 
> Queue is a thread-safe class, and you do not need any additional
> synchronisation.

Not around the queue itself, no, so you're right -- a mutex synchronize around 
queue.push would do nothing.

No, the problem isn't the queue itself, it's if you were to pass something 
non-thread-safe through the queue.