thread waiting for events

[Karim Bernardet]

Hi

In an client/server application made of singletons, the server can send
unix commands which must be executed on the clients, then the clients
return the outputs to the server. On the client, I have a threaded
singleton actionsManager() which manages thoses actions (unix command).
Those actions are also threaded with a timeout.
I don't know a good way for the actionsManager() to wait for theses
commands. I could use a while(1) loop for that but it is not really
good. Is there a better way to that ?

Cheers

Karim

 

[Gianni Mariani]

Hi

In an client/server application made of singletons, the server can send
unix commands which must be executed on the clients, then the clients
return the outputs to the server. On the client, I have a threaded
singleton actionsManager() which manages thoses actions (unix command).
Those actions are also threaded with a timeout.
I don't know a good way for the actionsManager() to wait for theses
commands. I could use a while(1) loop for that but it is not really
good. Is there a better way to that ?

This is not a C++ question. This is a unix/posix question. Things like
select, poll, kpoll, epoll (the last 2 being BSD/Solaris and Linux
specific) come to mind. Then again, signals, pipes, msg queues and or
semaphores might be better for you. You'll need to be very specific
when you post your question to the right newsgroup.