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The Producer-Consumer Problem (also known as the bounded-buffer problem) is a classical example of a multi-process synchronization problem. The problem describes two processes, the producer and the consumer, who share a common, fixed-size buffer used as a queue.

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Producer/consumer problem with four priority levels

struct definition Although the typedef struct tag { /* body */ } name; style is common in C, it's unnecessary in C++. You can just use: class name { /* body */ }; and get essentially the same effect. …
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Notifying consumers when a producer is done

Let's start with pop. As many have noted, a pop that returns the value being removed from the collection can (will) cause problems unless copying (or moving) the value is guaranteed to be exception fr …
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C++ lock free, single producer, single consumer queue

This is sort of an extended comment on Martin York's reply. When you're doing any sort of parallel processing, I advise against re-designing pop so it requires two operations to actually remove an it …
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