Subj : Re: Study Material for Multi-threaded application developement in UNIX/LINUX
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Uenal Mutlu
Date : Fri May 27 2005 07:57 am

"Arash Partow" <partow@gmail.com> wrote
>
> No if they were static then you could only ever have one instance of
> POSIXCondition. The condition variable once created can be passed
> around by reference to other threads which will use the variable either
>
> to wait on or to signal / waiting threads.
>
> The reason for the loop and such... is because signal and broadcast
> are two different waking mechanisms. In the pthreads standard
> broadcast wakes every waiting thread on the condition where as signal
> wakes the thread that as been waiting the longest or in other words
> was the first to call wait on that condition - aka first in queue.

Ok, thx, got it.
BTW, I must say a nice library. Keep up the good thing.

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