Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Thread-Safe Blocking?

[Eric Blossom]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 03:19:34PM -0500, Michael Dickens wrote:
> In implementing gr-audio-osx, I've figured out (after much debugging)  
> that 2 threads are conflicting (GR is 1 thread, CoreAudio is the  
> other), and thus I need a semaphore or equivalent ... needs to be  
> thread-safe.  Does GR have a preference of what to use for this?  Or  
> is it OS- and programmer-dependent?  Thanks! - MLD
> 
> ps> gr-audio-osx -almost- works, excepting this one issue (as far as  
> I have found).  Once that's resolved, I'll do some internal testing  
> at UND over the holidays to flush out any other issues.  Look for a  
> release sometime in early January.

We use the omnithread abstraction.  This gives us a C++ friendly
interface to Posix (and NT) threads.  See
gnuradio-core/doc/other/omnithread.pdf

Eric