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What are conditional wait and signal in multi-threading?
Explanation: When you want to sleep a thread, condition variable can be used. In C under Linux, there is a function pthread_cond_wait() to wait or sleep.
On the other hand, there is a function pthread_cond_signal() to wake up sleeping or waiting thread.
Threads can wait on a condition variable.
Prerequisite : Multithreading
Syntax of pthread_cond_wait() :
int pthread_cond_wait(pthread_cond_t *restrict cond, pthread_mutex_t *restrict mutex);
Parameter :
cond : condition variable mutex : is mutex lock
Return Value :
On success, 0 is returned ; otherwise, an error number shall be returned to indicate the error.
The pthread_cond_wait() release a lock specified by mutex and wait on condition cond variable.
Syntax of pthread_cond_signal() :
int pthread_cond_signal(pthread_cond_t *cond);
Parameter :
cond : condition variable
Return Value :
On success, 0 is returned ; otherwise, an error number shall be returned to indicate the error.
The pthread_cond_signal() wake up threads waiting for the condition variable.
Note : The above two functions works together.
Below is the implementation of condition, wait and signal functions.
Output:
Time Complexity:
The time complexity of this program is O(1), as the program only requires one iteration of each thread.
Space Complexity:
The space complexity of this program is O(1), as the program only requires a few variables to be stored in memory.