Waiting on multiple events C++

Question

Is there a recommended way to wait on multiple inputs. For example I would like my program to be able to receive input from 3 sources:

Listen on a thread condition e.g.

Answer 1

You can listen on multiple file descriptors without using multiple threads using the select(2) system call. You can use pthread_cond_timedwait to wait on a condition variable with a timeout, such that you don't wait more than a particular amount of time.

I think it's highly unusual to want to simultaneously wait on either a condition variable or a file descriptor of some sort -- if you're absolutely sure that that's what you want to do, you'll have to use multiple threads, with one thread calling either pthread_cond_wait/pthread_cond_timedwait, and the other thread calling select or some other I/O function.