Hello,

I'm working on a little multithreaded event dispatch... thingy. As it stands the code uses quite a lot of Win32 APIs, focusing on primitives such as Events.

The way that I am using this is for manual-reset events to signal to a thread that an input queue needs attention. The thread loops through reading the queue, then resets the event so that it knows not to look at it again until signaled. A collection of these events is continuously waited on via WaitForMultipleObjects.

Unfortunately, I can't see a drop-in equivalent of this functionality on Linux. pthreads doesn't have an elegant solution to this either, bearing in mind that the adjustment of Win32 event objects is serialized (only one thread can make changes at any time).

I was hoping that this would be covered by a cross-platform library by now, but ho hum. I don't mind implementing the "core" of the system in a platform-specific manner if it means that it works as quickly as possible on that platform. But in case I missed something, can anyone else shed some light?