Casper H.S. Dik
7/19/2004 5:52:00 PM
angels__tear@hotmail.com writes:
>The parent thread ends up in a loop that is consistently checking for
>available messages. These messages should be provided by the child
>thread - but the child thread never seems to execute.
Does the parent ever go to sleep? Busy waiting is not good and will
prevent progress in other threads.
>So in short, I need to have the child thread and the parent thread
>executing as close to simultaneously as possible. Lock-step isn't
>necessary, but I do need to know that both are running through their
>loops at a reasonable rate.
If the "parent" thread needs to wait for work, it should sleep
on a condition variable.
Casper
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