Mailbox

Description

This sample creates an instance of a mailbox which is thread safe. It spawns off instances of reader and writer threads which inherit the mailbox instance and begin reading and writing when it is available to do either. This will run for 1 minute, and then the program will shut itself down. The reader threads will output what it is reading and how many times the particular thread has gone into the mailbox to read a message. Writer threads will put messages into the mailbox but are otherwise silent.

Source Files

File	Description
Mailbox.cpp	the main source file, which contains the mailbox class and a small main function to demonstrate the mailbox in use.
Mailbox.h	contains the mailbox class declaration and any required header files

Setting up the Mailbox test

Build MailBox.rtss or MailBox.exe

Running Mailbox

Run with no arguments

APIs Referenced

RTAPI

• RtWaitForSingleObject
• RtCreateMutex
• RtReleaseMutex
• CreateThread