Multi-threaded buffer access

[ShaunO]

I have a buffer (a byte array)
There will one thread writing data to the buffer and another emptying the
buffer.
To 'empty' the buffer it does a Buffer.BlockCopy to move the unread data to
the front of the array and update the data tail marker.

Should i use Monitor.Enter and Exit to ensure that the 2 threads dont clash
ie. one tries to read data from the buffer whilst the other is doing a
blockcopy on it ?

Thanks,
S

 

[Marc Gravell]

Unless you can guarantee that they are never going to try to look at the
same data, then yes: this will almost certainly need synchronization.
However, I wonder if a Queue<T> might be more suitable? Depends on
exactly what is happening, of course...

Marc

 

[ShaunO]

Thanks.
I will post a new question to test the buffer approach