Subj : Re: Lock-free buffer
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : SenderX
Date : Sat Mar 05 2005 01:44 pm

>    1) Allocate a new buffer.
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>    2) Write the data into the buffer.
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>    3) Save the pointer to the buffer that the readers use.
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>    4) Atomically replace the pointer with the pointer to the new buffer.
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>    5) Set a timer to free the old buffer later.

How would the timer know how long to wait?

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