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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Task safe containers? Help needed.
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 08:57:14 +0200
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On 2017-10-08 06:27, reinert wrote:

> if I want to access a container (Vector, Set, Map) by several tasks
> (updating and reading) - (hopefully) without loosing functionality of
> the container.
> 
> What should I do?

1. If operations are short and non-blocking put the container in a 
protected object and route operations trough object's ones.

2. If operations are long, unbounded, blocking (most of the cases):

2.a Use a mutex taken at the beginning of each operation and released at 
the end.

2.b Use monitor task owning the container. All operations are performed 
by the task from task's entries.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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