Thomas Hruska wrote:
> Tamas Marki wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:22 PM, mikejd42 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I have two threads both kicked off at the same time. Thread one feeds
>>>  information info a structure while thread two reads that information.
>>>
>>>  I would imagine that there is some kind of thread lock that I can call
>>>  to keep thread 2 at bay until thread one has updated the structure?
>> You are looking for mutexes or semaphores. Since you didn't specify
>> what threading mechanism are you using, I can't be more specific...
>> Hope this helps though.
> 
> Or events/conditionals.  Depends on OS/threading architecture.  A mutex 
> is the general-purpose solution but tends to be fairly heavyweight.

I should add that the general-purpose solution is usually a good first 
pass.  Optimize later.

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