Monitor.Wait, Pulse - When worker thread should conditionally behave as an actual worker thread
- by Griever
My particular scenario:
- Main thread starts a worker thread.
- Main thread needs to block itself until either worker thread is completed (yeah funny) or worker thread itself informs main thread to go on
Alright, so what I did in main thread:
wokerThread.Start(lockObj);
lock(lockObj)
Monitor.Wait(lockObj);
Somewhere in worker thread:
if(mainThreadShouldGoOn)
lock(lockObj)
Monitor.Pulse(lockObj);
Also, at the end of worker thread:
lock(lockObj)
Monitor.Pulse(lockObj);
So far, it's working perfect. But is it a good solution? Is there a better one?
