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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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On Apr 21, 8:58=A0am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:

> An interesting issue is the producer's behavior when the queue is full. I
> presume it would fail

Or block. Being full is symmetric to being empty (hint: being full
means that you run out of empty space, which means that the reserve of
empty space is... empty :-) ).

> or the queue may grow infinitely (:-))

There are no infinite computers yet. You will get the out of memory
condition, which in C++ is reported with an exception. This is handled
cleanly: mutex will be automatically unlocked and consumers will not
be affected.

> You may need
> an additional pulse event to handle this more reasonably.

What "pulse event"? They are not needed at all.

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.msobczak.com * http://www.inspirel.com