12 Jul
2004
12 Jul
'04
4:21 p.m.
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.