Re: [9fans] OT: cannonical set of queue ops

["LiteStar numnums" <litestar@gmail.com>]

>For instance, if IsQueueEmpty returns "true", that answer isn't worth
very much if, by
> the time you act on that information, some other thread could have
> added an item to the queue.

Wouldn't it be natural for such a function to block the active thread
until the desired
result is achieved? Since this clean up thread wouldn't really need to
be on a hard deadline, wouldn't WaitQueueEmpty make more sense then a
IsQueueEmpty? The writer may be more difficult, but again, if the
Queue is full, it must wait anyway, so blocking here wouldn't be too
problematic, methinks.

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