From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-20 10:16:33
Peter Dimov wrote:
>
> Pavel Syomin wrote:
>
> > This is solve my problems, but why there is nothing about spurious
> > wakeup in boost documentation?...
>
> The older documentation
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20041024220516/boost.org/libs/thread/doc/condition.html
>
> does have a few sentences that mention spurious wakeups; I've no idea how
> they got lost. I'll CC: the dev list.
The docu might tell something not only about spurious wakeups but
also about the fact that return of timedout status doesn't preclude
consumption of a signal issued concurrently (note that thread
cancel delivery does preclude it).
Well, the best fix is simply incorporate by reference the standard
semantics as defined in (most current edition) ISO/IEC 9945.
regards,
alexander.