Inter-thread communication (worker threads)

Question

I\'ve created two threads A & B using CreateThread windows API. I\'m trying to send the data from thread A to B.

I know I can use Event object and wait for the Event

Answer 1

If you are concerned with minimizing Windows dependencies, and assuming you are coding in C++, then I recommend using Boost.Threads, which is a pretty nice, Posix-like C++ threading interface. This will give you easy portability between Windows and Linux.

If you go this route, then use a mutex to protect any data shared across threads, and a condition variable (combined with the mutex) to signal one thread from the other.