Using condition variable in a producer-consumer situation

Question

I\'m trying to learn about condition variables and how to use it in a producer-consumer situation. I have a queue where one thread pushes numbers into the queue while anothe

Answer 1

You have to use the same mutex to guard the queue as you use in the condition variable.

This should be all you need:

void consume()
{
    while( !bStop )
    {
        boost::scoped_lock lock( mutexQ);
        // Process data
        while( messageQ.empty() ) // while - to guard agains spurious wakeups
        {
            condQ.wait( lock );

        }
        string s = messageQ.front();            
        messageQ.pop();
    }
}

void produce()
{
    int i = 0;

    while(( !bStop ) && ( i < MESSAGE ))
    {
        stringstream out;
        out << i;
        string s = out.str();

        boost::mutex::scoped_lock lock( mutexQ );
        messageQ.push( s );
        i++;
        condQ.notify_one();
    }
}