[Opensim-dev] BlockingQueue

[Dr Scofield]

Stefan Andersson wrote:
> This is all true. What CAN and HAVE happened, is that somebody not 
> aware that a method calls a method that calls a method that reads from 
> the Blocking Queue suddenly finds herself waiting for somebody else to 
> put an item into the queue. This kind of thread interdependency can 
> lead to VERY hard-to-debug scenarios.
hmm....normal problem with multithreaded programming and 
producer--consumer type scenarios...not sure how you want to solve 
that...but i might be (and probably are) missing the greater picture.

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