Questions tagged [spurious-wakeup]

In POSIX, because of "spurious wakeup" problem, programmers are forced to use while() instead of if when checking condition. I think spurious wakeup is unintuitive and confusing problem, but I thought it's an inevitable problem. Recently, I found…

I would like to know what happens with the while after a waiting thread is waked. To avoid 'spurious wake-ups', the pthreads documentation points out that you need to use pthread_cond_wait inside a while statement. So, when the pthread_cond_wait is…

I am curious whether it is possible to pause a thread t in Java and allow another thread to resume it later, by having t run the following pause code: while(true) { try { synchronized(t) { t.wait(); } } catch(InterruptedException…

I am currently reading a book about multi threading in C++. In one chapter I found some source code for a thread safe queue. It is roughly built like this: template class QueueThreadSafe { private: std::mutex m_mutex; …