[fpc-pascal] notify and notigyall

[ik]

On 8/23/07, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:32:41 +0300
> ik <idokan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/23/07, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> > > > Is there an equivalent for Java's sleep and notify/notifyAll in
> > > > FPC's rtl ?
> > >
> > > I'm sorry. I don't know Java that well. Maybe it is easier to
> > > describe the exact behaviour that you want instead of drawing a
> > > parallel
> >
> > Lets say I have synchronized threads, because I do not want to arrive
> > to a race condition.
> > So I want one thread to sleep as long as another thread is running...
> > now "sleep" or "wait" I don't remember, sleep to infinitum unless I'm
> > notifying the thread.
> > Now if I have more then one thread (for example) that is looking for
> > something to finish, I should need to tell every such thread to
> > continue running, so I'll use notifyAll.
>
> Maybe you can try
>
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/rtleventwaitfor.html
>
> If this works, you can write a small example for the wiki:
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multithreaded_Application_Tutorial

Thanks, that's what I was looking for.

> Mattias


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