Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:19:11 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to share data between threads Message-ID: <20050222121911.GA63213@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20050222063810.GA1784@gothmog.gr> References: <20050222055000.GA49525@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20050222063810.GA1784@gothmog.gr>
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:38:11AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: : On 2005-02-22 05:50, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> wrote: : > : > Hi all, : > I'm porting some libraries from Win32 to BSD/Linux. In the original : > code, I receive a Windows event with an attached COM object. : > : > Under *nix, what is the best way to copy this? A message, followed : > by accessing shared memory between threads? : : Does the message really have to be shared across many threads? I'm : only asking because thread-specific message queues are not that hard : to build with pthreads. You will only need a per-thread queue to hold : messages and a master thread that 'dispatches' messages to the proper : thread/queue. Well, there will be a data acquisition thread, that when finished, will need to signal the main processing thread that a new data object has arrived. Jonathon McKitrick -- My other computer is your Windows box.
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