Methods for "signalling" other threads?

[Ronny Pfannschmidt]

Mark Nowhere wrote:

>Hi,
>    Just a quick question. I have a serial
>reader/writer thread and an network reader/writer
>thread. Basically I want the serial thread to, once
>new data has come in from the COMM port signal the
>network thread in some way to get it to pick up the
>data and send it over the network. Just not sure what
>I should use to get this effect?
>
>Options I can see are:
>
>Semaphores
>or 
>pthread_cond_signal/pthread_cond_wait stuff
>or 
>something else :)
>
>Many thanks for any advice
>
>Mark
>
>
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why dont let the 1st thread [read serial] -> [write net],
and the 2nd [read net] -> [write serial]

Ronny