On Monday, 13 May 2013 at 21:55:45 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On Mon, 13 May 2013 17:04:22 -0400, Juan Manuel Cabo
<juanmanuel.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
I seem to recall (though I might be wrong) that win32 events
can be signalled before the thread calls WaitForSingleObject
(or WaitForMultipleObjects), and if it was signalled, the call
returns immediately. I think this was very useful.
Right, the equivalent to a windows event is a D Mutex,
Condition, and a protected boolean. In other words, the
condition aids synchronization of a message, but it is not the
message itself! Windows events could serve as the message (but
not necessarily).
-Steve
Thanks!!! Your explanation finally made it clear for me. It would
be nice if this last paragraph of yours was in the documentation.
It would save some headakes for people like me (I first viewed
Condition as a drop in replacement of win32 events, didn't know
of the pthreads way). And also, after reading the other link
posted above:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2763714/why-do-pthreads-condition-variable-functions-require-a-mutex
I think I finally got it.
Thanks again!
--jm
