The Kernel services provide no way to confirm that a thread, once started, still exists--for good reason. If an object was told a thread existed, by the time the object received that news and began to process it, the thread's status
If you need to start a thread and manipulate it--as in many multithread programs--you need to create classes separating the thread from its state. An alternative is using IPC services. However, IPC requires microkernel processing which requires additional performance overhead.
could change. Creating a type-safe
queue
Although Taligent provides a queue class called TProducerConsumerQueue, this program uses its own class, TPCQueue--a templatized version of TProducerConsumerQueue. Being templatized, TPCQueue provides a type-safe queue, which makes debugging the program easier.
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