Linked Questions

I have a class that has its own worker thread, and some of the member variables of the class is shared between the main thread and the worker. How can I use a mutex to lock only the member variables ...

Is there any difference between a binary semaphore and mutex or are they essentially the same?

A mutex is a programming concept that is frequently used to solve multi-threading problems. My question to the community: What is a mutex and how do you use it?

When should we use mutex and when should we use semaphore ?

I have a class that has a state (a simple enum) and that is accessed from two threads. For changing state I use a mutex (boost::mutex). Is it safe to check the state (e.g. compare state_ == ...

I'm going to use boost::mutex from boost/thread/mutex.hpp. There are several ways to lock/unlock mutex: with scoped_lock, unique_lock, lock_guard, mutex's member functions ::lock() and ::unlock() and ...

I have seen tutorials on the internet for making multithreaded applications in C++ on Windows, and other tutorials for doing the same on Linux, but not for both at the same time. Are there functions ...

I read a few documents about Mutex and still the only Idea I have got is that it helps preventing threads from accessing a resource that is already being used by another resource. I got from Code ...

Do I need a mutex if I have only one reader and one writer? The reader takes the next command (food.front()) from the queue and executes a task based on the command. After the command is executed, it ...

What is the correct use of a Mutex? How do I know what it is protecting? Does it stop all threads from running for the locked period? For example I have a singleton that contains a list of objects. ...

My app consist of the main-process and two threads, all running concurrently and making use of three fifo-queues: The fifo-q's are Qmain, Q1 and Q2. Internally the queues each use a counter that is ...

Here I use Peterson's algorithm to implement mutual exclusion. I have two very simple threads, one to increase a counter by 1, another to reduce it by 1. const int PRODUCER = 0,CONSUMER =1; int ...

In the title is pretty clear, I just need to know if there's a way to Sleep for some miliseconds and then call a function without stopping the GUI. The way that I do now is just adding Sleep(3000); ...

Code: #include <iostream> #include "stdafx.h" #include <boost/thread.hpp> #include <boost/thread/mutex.hpp> using namespace std; boost::mutex mut; double results[10]; void doubler(...

Fairly unknowledgable linux (ubuntu 14.04) user here. I'm trying to install a bioinformatics program called Bowtie2 - I get this error and not sure where it's coming from. They did quote this on their ...