In addition to the good documentation provided by cppreference
I had a doubt that the mutex would be locked in the waiting cycle, but because of the condition_variable::wait() function,
it actually allows other threads to access the variable while no notifi_all() method has been called.
#include <iostream>
#include <condition_variable>
#include <thread>
#include <chrono>
std::condition_variable cv;
std::mutex cv_m; // This mutex is used for three purposes:
// 1) to synchronize accesses to i
// 2) to synchronize accesses to std::cerr
// 3) for the condition variable cv
int i = 0;
void waits()
{
std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lk(cv_m);
std::cerr << "Waiting... \n";
// wait() is going to allow other to use the mutex while the notification has not been received
cv.wait(lk, [] { return i == 1; });
std::cerr << "...finished waiting. i == 1\n";
}
void signals()
{
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::seconds(1));
{
std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lk(cv_m);
std::cerr << "Notifying...\n";
}
cv.notify_all();
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::seconds(1));
{
std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lk(cv_m);
i = 1;
std::cerr << "Notifying again...\n";
}
cv.notify_all();
}
int main()
{
std::thread t1(waits), t2(waits), t3(waits), t4(signals);
t1.join();
t2.join();
t3.join();
t4.join();
}
Run the application using the following commands g++ main.cpp -lpthread && ./a.out