Re^5: OT: Locking and syncing mechanisms available on *nix.

[nikosv]

in reply to Re^4: OT: Locking and syncing mechanisms available on *nix.
in thread OT: Locking and syncing mechanisms available on *nix.

Events can be achieved with a combination of conditional variables and a mutex. Check pthread_cond_timedwait()(search for it inside the page)

[BrowserUk]

I know, but as I don't have anything I want to mutually exclude access to, I don't want to use the (by all accounts very expensive) mutex mechanism.