Condition Variables
You have seen that an SRWLock is used when you want to allow producer and consumer threads access to the same resource either in exclusive or shared mode. In these kinds of situations, if there is nothing to consume for a reader thread, it should release the lock and wait until there is something new produced by a writer thread. If the data structure used to receive the items produced by a writer thread becomes full, the lock should also be released and the writer thread put to sleep until reader threads have emptied the data structure.
Condition variables are designed to simplify your life when implementing synchronization scenarios where a thread has to atomically release a lock on a resource and blocks until a condition is ...
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