BrowserUK,

Thread Queues is a perfect solution to the logfile problem.

When you suggested using Thread Queues for my IPC before, I looked into them, but mistakenly thought they were like pipes – one thread to one other thread.

Now that I see the error of my ways, I’m considering using them for my IPC (or is it ITC?), but there’s one problem.

Three of my threads just sit around waiting for a datagram to arrive from another thread using select(,,,undef). The other two have to break out of the select every x seconds to do some housekeeping, so they use select(,,,timeout).

Unfortunately, dequeue() doesn’t have a timeout feature. I don’t see any way to use dequeue_nb since during periods of inactivity, it’d have to spin in a tight loop.

Any ideas?

Thanks - Dave

In reply to Re^2: Win32 - flock() not FIFO? by hennesse
in thread Win32 - flock() not FIFO? by hennesse

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