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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: C++ primer on multithreading
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:04:06 +0200, Alex R. Mosteo wrote:

> Basically I need a protected queue with blocking semantics; several 
> writters, one consumer.

That is just one mutex + one manual-reset event.
 
An interesting issue is the producer's behavior when the queue is full. I
presume it would fail or the queue may grow infinitely (:-)) You may need
an additional pulse event to handle this more reasonably.

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