PSyncPointAck Class Reference

#include <syncthrd.h>

Inheritance diagram for PSyncPointAck:

List of all members.

Public Member Functions
virtual void	Signal ()
void	Signal (const PTimeInterval &waitTime)
void	Acknowledge ()
Protected Attributes
PSyncPoint	ack

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Detailed Description

This class defines a thread synchronisation object.

This may be used to send signals to a thread and await an acknowldegement that the signal was processed. This can be be used to initiate an action in another thread and wait for the action to be completed.

    ... thread one
    while (condition) {
      sync.Wait();
      do_something();
      sync.Acknowledge();
    }

    ... thread 2
    do_something_else();
    sync.Signal();    // At this point thread 1 wake up and does something.
    do_yet_more();    // However, this does not get done until Acknowledge()
                      // is called in the other thread.

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Member Function Documentation

void PSyncPointAck::Acknowledge

(

)

This indicates that the thread that was blocked in a Wait() on this synchronisation object has completed the operation the signal was intended to initiate. This unblocks the thread that had called the Signal() function to initiate the action.

void PSyncPointAck::Signal

(

const PTimeInterval &

waitTime

)

virtual void PSyncPointAck::Signal

(

)

[virtual]

If there are waiting (blocked) threads then unblock the first one that was blocked. If no waiting threads and the count is less than the maximum then increment the semaphore.

Unlike the PSyncPoint::Signal() this function will block until the target thread that was blocked by the Wait() function has resumed execution and called the Acknowledge() function.

The waitTime parameter is used as a maximum amount of time to wait for the achnowledgement to be returned from the other thread.

Reimplemented from PSemaphore.

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Member Data Documentation

PSyncPoint PSyncPointAck::ack [protected]

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• syncthrd.h

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