From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-11-26T21:07:06+09:00
Subject: Re: atomic statements in multithreading

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:03 PM, ajay paswan <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> now I want to make step 2 and step 3 an atomic statement, it means when
> one thread goes to statement 2, every other thread should stop and run
> only when that particular thread completes step 3. Is it possible? How?
>
> note mutex is not the solution, as mutex keeps thread not running a
> block of code at same time, here if one thread goes to the block all
> other thread should stop.

Why do you want to do that?  That will cripple throughput more than necessary.

Kind regards

robert

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