7.4. Interthread Communication
While threads can, of course, act in isolation (in fact, a design that requires no communication between threads lends itself to a far simpler implementation), sometimes it is necessary for threads to communicate with each other. Often, the type of communication will be fairly simple, such as reading or modifying a public member variable, or invoking an object method. Other times, more sophisticated communication is called for. Two good options for communication are communication pipes and the wait()/notify() methods, which allow one thread to notify a waiting thread of an event.
7.4.1. Communication Pipes between Threads
Like multiprocess communication, which uses pipes to send data from one process to another, ...
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