From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T17:43:56+09:00
Subject: Re: signaling another thread


"Edgardo Hames" <ehames@vates.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:409A9E78.9080702@vates.com...
> Robert Klemme wrote:
> >>>> what is is the prefered method in which one thread can 'signal'
> >>>> another thread on some condition?  Observable?  other?
>  >
> > It depends on the situation: if the thread to notify may be idle, a
> > ConditionVariable is better.
> >
>
> I'd take the ConditionVariable approach if I could, otherwise I don't
> see why you can't use the Observer Paradigm. Maybe, I'm missing the
point.

Hm, dunno how exactly you want to treat this with observer.  But you need
some kind of thread synchronization anyway, even if you use observer.

Are you familiar with multithreaded applications?

Regards

    robert