p2/threads/Communicator.java

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Java

package nachos.threads;
import nachos.machine.*;
/**
* A <i>communicator</i> allows threads to synchronously exchange 32-bit
* messages. Multiple threads can be waiting to <i>speak</i>,
* and multiple threads can be waiting to <i>listen</i>. But there should never
* be a time when both a speaker and a listener are waiting, because the two
* threads can be paired off at this point.
*/
public class Communicator {
/**
* Allocate a new communicator.
*/
public Communicator() {
}
/**
* Wait for a thread to listen through this communicator, and then transfer
* <i>word</i> to the listener.
*
* <p>
* Does not return until this thread is paired up with a listening thread.
* Exactly one listener should receive <i>word</i>.
*
* @param word the integer to transfer.
*/
public void speak(int word) {
}
/**
* Wait for a thread to speak through this communicator, and then return
* the <i>word</i> that thread passed to <tt>speak()</tt>.
*
* @return the integer transferred.
*/
public int listen() {
return 0;
}
}