From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-06-22T01:50:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread Timeout

On 21.06.2010 02:59, Francesco Vollero wrote:
> Il 20/06/10 19.50, Robert Klemme ha scritto:
>> On 20.06.2010 19:08, Francesco Vollero wrote:
>>> i'm working with multiple threads, with a producer-consumer like
>>> algorithm.
>>> My problem is that i want that the "consumer" thread take all the
>>> content every *N* seconds and after go to "sleep" again,
>>
>> Why do you want to do that?  If you want to schedule activity with
>> particular intervals then I believe a scheduling solution would be
>> better.  In a simplistic solution you can have the main thread sleep
>> for the interval and create a thread for each task.
>>
> Robert, a draft example ?

You go first. ;-)  You did not yet describe what kind of problem you are 
trying to solve.

Btw, sleeping and starting threads isn't that hard.

Cheers

	robert

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