Embedded Programming with Modern C++ Cookbook

How to do it...

In our application, we are going to create a simple iterative function that runs in the background, along with the monitoring loop running in the main thread.

1. In your ~/test working directory, create a subdirectory called monotonic.
2. Use your favorite text editor to create a monotonic.cpp file in the monotonic subdirectory.
3. Let's add headers and define global variables used by our routines:

#include <iostream>#include <chrono>#include <atomic>#include <mutex>#include <thread>auto touched = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();std::mutex m;std::atomic_bool ready{ false };

4. They are followed by the code of the background worker thread routine:

void Worker() {  for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {    std::this_thread::sleep_for( std::chrono::milliseconds(100 ...