Chapter 5: The Interthread Communication Package

• 5.1 Introducing the Interthread Communication Package
• 5.1.1 Interpackage Dependencies
• 5.1.2 Including the Header Files
• 5.2 Definitions
• 5.2.1 Futures, IOUs, and Escrows
• 5.2.2 Producers, Consumers, and Blocking
• 5.3 Interthread Communication Class Hierarchies
• 5.3.1 The Producer-Consumer Class Hierarchy
• 5.3.2 The IOU Class Hierarchy
• 5.4 Using Interthread Communication
• 5.4.1 Using Producer-Consumer Queues
• 5.5 The IOU Classes
• 5.5.1 Testing for Empty IOU Handles
• 5.5.2 Constructing an IOU
• 5.5.3 Closing an IOU
• 5.5.4 Redeeming an IOU
• 5.5.5 Using IOUs
• 5.5.6 Waiting for IOUs
• 5.5.7 Trapping IOUs with RWTIOUTrap
• 5.6 The Producer-Consumer Classes
• 5.6.1 Value and Pointer Classes
• 5.6.2 Guarded and Prioritized Classes

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