Sorry for the late reply, but this just wasn't an option. I manage to solve my problem (see below).
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Aaron Sinclair <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually there might be a problem here. You say the first thread produces, > the second thread calls dispatch to consume. > > But you want to shut down the program from the first thread. > > Can you change your program so the thread doing the consumption terminated > when it’s finished instead of the producer? > >> On Feb 20, 2018, at 3:03 AM, Egor Tensin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Hopefully you can help me with a libevent issue that I'm stuck on. I >> have two threads, one of which produces data, and the other runs >> event_base_dispatch (receiving the data from the first thread, >> processing it and sending it somewhere else). They communicate using a >> pair of bufferevents (over a local socket pair). The issue is, the >> first thread might be done with producing the data, program >> termination being the next logical step. But I want to wait for the >> second thread to 1) receive _all_ the data the first thread sent, 2) >> process it and 3) send it to the final destination. I can't figure out >> how to accomplish that, because if I call event_base_loopexit after >> the first thread stops, it looks like the second thread exits right >> after executing the current round of callbacks, discarding the latest >> data that might have been sent by the first thread. Can somebody >> please explain to me how to fix this? I can set a random timeout for >> event_base_loopexit, but this is unreliable, isn't it? >> >> Regards, >> Egor Tensin. >> *********************************************************************** >> To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with >> unsubscribe libevent-users in the body. > > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with > unsubscribe libevent-users in the body. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
