Is it possible to read and write in file at the same time?

Question

Here\'s the scenario:

• ThreadA is going to read from some socket, and write data to \"MyFile.txt\"
• ThreadB is going to read \"MyFile\", and when it rea

Answer 1

The problem you mention is a famous Producer Consumer Problem

Common solution to this is to use BlockingQueue

An example of real world usage is in AjaxYahooSearchEngineMonitor

What Thread A does is, it will submit a string to queue, and then return immediately.

What Thread B does is, it will pick up the item from queue one by one, and process them. When there is no item in the queue, Thread B will just wait there. See line 83 of the source code.