Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 12:24:49 04/23/02
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On April 23, 2002 at 12:12:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Are you using POSIX for Windows as well? Macros or what? Peter
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