Producer-consumer threading problem

[Aahz]

In article <1f8adb7a-1257-4a56-b69a-557115c60050 at k37g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
George Sakkis  <george.sakkis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I'd like some feedback on a solution to a variant of the producer-
>consumer problem. My first few attempts turned out to deadlock
>occasionally; this one seems to be deadlock-free so far but I can't
>tell if it's provably correct, and if so, whether it can be
>simplified.

Take a look at the threading tutorial on my web page, specifically the
threadpool spider.
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