On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:29:51AM +0200, Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> That should work. You still have to use proper locking if f.e.
> a "background" thread collects data via ftdi_read_data() and you also
> call ftdi_read_data() from the "main" thread. (Multi core systems
> might see different values for ftdi->readbufer_XXX otherwise)
Is it safe to have a "reading" thread that does all the reading, while
another thread does some writing? My reading-thread dumps the data
into a properly locked (*) shared memory buffer and the "main" thread
reads from there.
Roger.
(*) Actually no locks involved. If you program it wisely there is no
need.
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