Subj : Re: Question : usage of conditional variables.
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Thu Jun 09 2005 02:42 pm


"David Butenhof" <david.butenhof@hp.com> wrote in message 
news:42A83644.7050902@hp.com...

> If you're really trying to sleep "just to sleep", without any particular 
> intent (you're not waiting "for something"), then you probably should be 
> using some mechanism other than condition variables. They're designed 
> specifically to allow you to reliably wait for some defined change in a 
> predicate that's protected by a mutex; and only for that. If you have some 
> vastly different purpose, a semaphore, or even a simple sleep() call, 
> might be more appropriate. (But of course we can't give any specific 
> advice unless we know what you need, and why.)

    And, of course, if you're just using condition variable to sleep because 
you want to learn how to use them, your time would be better spent learning 
how to use them for their actual purpose. ;)

    DS

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