Subj : Re: many producers/one consumer
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joe Seigh
Date : Thu Feb 17 2005 08:00 am

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:51:17 -0500, Keith O <keithtoo@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a many producers(threads) that add data to a queue and one
> consumer(thread) that reads from the queue and writes the data to a
> database.
>
> What is a good algorithm to handle this sort of thing. The thing that's
> bugging me is when the producers finish producing data and exit, I want the
> consumer to know that it should stop checking for new data and exit.
>

You'd use the same technique that you'd use for a signle threaded program
to indicate no more data.


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Joe Seigh

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