Re: [Chicken-users] inter-thread communication

[felix winkelmann]

On 5/27/05, Michele Simionato <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am starting to look at multithreading in Chicken and it is not clear to me
> how to do inter-thread communication. Here is my use case: I have multiple
> writers and a single reader; I would like the writers to write on a port and
> the reader to read from it, blocking while the data are not arriving.
> Is there a specific  mechanism to manage this typical situation? (i.e.
> in Python I have a Queue class for this).

You should use the `mailbox' extension for this:

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/mailbox.html

(these are just thread-safe queues)


cheers,
felix