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Subj : Re: Study Material for Multi-threaded application developement in UNIX/LINUX
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : partow
Date : Thu May 26 2005 06:23 pm

Hi Torsten,

The reason why there are different error handling techniques is
because the user may need either the an exception oriented mechanism
(where exceptions are thrown) or they may have a logging environment,
where failures will be logged and tracked/intercepted <place your own
term here>.


As for the mutexs, as explained on the site that was linked in my so-
called *advertisement* the read-write mutex is bias towards the
readers. one may need an atomic mutex (i can think of nearly 100
scenarios just off the top of my head), hence thats why the mutex
class is made available.

Overall the class is meant to show how the pthreads API can be used
within a C++ context. and as mentioned before the site which was
linked to in my so-called *advertisement* mentions that libraries such
as ACE and BOOST should be considered as being more advanced and more
functional and that the wrappers are by mere "educational" - learning
tools/aids

If you like have a quick look at this library:
http://www.partow.net/downloads/producer-consumer-source.zip

I would like to know your opinion.




Regard



Arash Partow
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