Details
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Question
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Not A Problem
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0.1
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Mac OS X 10.5.6
Description
The last piece of replacing the pthread-based threading implementation with a Boost threads implementation is to replace all of the raw ptherad mutex and condition usage in TFileTransport.
I think the best way to proceed is to define a Condition class, similar to the way there is a Mutex class defined, give it a generic API that satisfies the demands of TFileTransport, then implement it both ways. You would need to construct a Condition object with a Mutex object reference, or probably a weak_ptr<Mutex> so we can know that the condition waits are safe. I'll add a comment with the API I work out.
However, my main concern is how to test the new code. It looks like I can use stress-test, but iI was hoping that someone who is familiar with the app could give me some pointers or a test procedure that exercises the threading code.