Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:12:17 04/23/02
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On April 23, 2002 at 04:17:39, Sune Fischer wrote: >On April 23, 2002 at 04:10:09, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>On April 23, 2002 at 03:39:01, Martin Bauer wrote: >> >>>Hello, >>> >>>can someone help mem with these two questions: >>> >>> - Is winboard comunication done by stdin/out with plain text commands, >>> as in UCI? >> >>I don't know about UCI, but winboard/xboard communication works with stdin/out >>and plain text commands. >> >> >>> - Must in winboard the engine be able to listen stdin even while thinking? >> >>Well, if you want to react to commands like "force move" or "new game" while >>you're thinking you better listen. :) Of course you don't have to.. >> >>My engine has its own thread for listening. It's my feeling that a good design >>here is easier when using threads. YMMV. >> >>HTH >> >>Sargon > >Is there a "quick" tutorial on how to use threads? >A small piece of code would be real nice :) > >I did it once with pthreads in linux, but did not do anything fancy, it was all >on local variables that didn't need any volatile stuff. > >-S. Do a google search on "Posix Threads". You should find a couple of online tutorials. If you download the pthreads package for linux (this is now a standard part of linux but the package is still lying around) you will get a few sample programs, plus a couple of tutorials you can read. I use these in the parallel programming course I teach, they are good enough for that...
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