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Revision: 1.1
Committed: Thu Jun 30 14:27:16 2005 UTC (21 years, 3 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: PERL-5-8-7, HEAD
Branch point for: PERL
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# Content
1 package Thread::Queue;
2
3 use threads::shared;
4 use strict;
5
6 our $VERSION = '2.00';
7
8 =head1 NAME
9
10 Thread::Queue - thread-safe queues
11
12 =head1 SYNOPSIS
13
14 use Thread::Queue;
15 my $q = new Thread::Queue;
16 $q->enqueue("foo", "bar");
17 my $foo = $q->dequeue; # The "bar" is still in the queue.
18 my $foo = $q->dequeue_nb; # returns "bar", or undef if the queue was empty
19 my $left = $q->pending; # returns the number of items still in the queue
20
21 =head1 DESCRIPTION
22
23 A queue, as implemented by C<Thread::Queue> is a thread-safe
24 data structure much like a list. Any number of threads can safely
25 add elements to the end of the list, or remove elements from the head
26 of the list. (Queues don't permit adding or removing elements from
27 the middle of the list).
28
29 =head1 FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
30
31 =over 8
32
33 =item new
34
35 The C<new> function creates a new empty queue.
36
37 =item enqueue LIST
38
39 The C<enqueue> method adds a list of scalars on to the end of the queue.
40 The queue will grow as needed to accommodate the list.
41
42 =item dequeue
43
44 The C<dequeue> method removes a scalar from the head of the queue and
45 returns it. If the queue is currently empty, C<dequeue> will block the
46 thread until another thread C<enqueue>s a scalar.
47
48 =item dequeue_nb
49
50 The C<dequeue_nb> method, like the C<dequeue> method, removes a scalar from
51 the head of the queue and returns it. Unlike C<dequeue>, though,
52 C<dequeue_nb> won't block if the queue is empty, instead returning
53 C<undef>.
54
55 =item pending
56
57 The C<pending> method returns the number of items still in the queue.
58
59 =back
60
61 =head1 SEE ALSO
62
63 L<threads>, L<threads::shared>
64
65 =cut
66
67 sub new {
68 my $class = shift;
69 my @q : shared = @_;
70 return bless \@q, $class;
71 }
72
73 sub dequeue {
74 my $q = shift;
75 lock(@$q);
76 cond_wait @$q until @$q;
77 cond_signal @$q if @$q > 1;
78 return shift @$q;
79 }
80
81 sub dequeue_nb {
82 my $q = shift;
83 lock(@$q);
84 return shift @$q;
85 }
86
87 sub enqueue {
88 my $q = shift;
89 lock(@$q);
90 push @$q, @_ and cond_signal @$q;
91 }
92
93 sub pending {
94 my $q = shift;
95 lock(@$q);
96 return scalar(@$q);
97 }
98
99 1;
100
101