Subj : Re: Condition variables & mutexes
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Torsten Robitzki
Date : Wed Jan 26 2005 06:26 pm

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>> but it's hard to see, why you don't just join the thread.
>>
> 
> Well, it's just an example.  I'm trying to roll my own pthread-safe
> version of alarm().  My pt_alarm_init() function creates a new thread,
> and that thread needs to do a little bit of initialization before
> pt_alarm_init() returns. 

Is there a reason why you do this initialization in the just spawned 
thread and not in the initial thread?

 > My plan is to use a condition variable to
> achieve this.

If you want a thread to wait for a specific condition to become true, 
that's the way to go.

> Is there a better way?

You don't need to qualify thread_is_ready to be volatile and in 
addition, it buys you nothing to do so.

regards
Torsten

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