Event Synchronization
Abstract
This chapter is concerned with event synchronization, namely, how to force a thread to wait for an event triggered by another thread. A detailed pedagogical discussion of the event synchronization primitives in Pthreads, Windows, and C++11 is presented, underlining their common structure. The role of condition variables as communication agents between threads is discussed in detail. A couple of examples dealing with high-level synchronization constructs demonstrate some subtle aspects of their operation. Then, some additional event synchronization constructs—futures and promises—introduced in the C++11 thread library are reviewed, because they constitute powerful and easy-to-use tools for application ...
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