[linux-audio-dev] jack_ringbuffer_read_space() question

[Paul Davis]

>I have a program with some (p)threads, and a jack ringbuffer. One
>thread is writing to the ringbuffer, and another is reading from it.
>
>The question is: is it (thread-)safe to have a _third_ thread that
>looks at the ringbuffer via jack_ringbuffer_read_space() at random
>times to determine how much data is in the ringbuffer? This third
>thread does not actually read nor write any data to/from the
>ringbuffer, just wants to know the amount of data in it.

it cannot accurately measure the available data or space. so it
depends what you plan to do with the data.