On Jan 17, 2013, at 3:40 AM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote:

> I've got a situation where I have a complicated process that periodically 
> pulls some bytes out of an NSMutableData. Eventually, it gets to the end of 
> the NSMutableData. At that point, I need the process to block while it waits 
> for a separate process (thread) to give it more data. What I need is a 
> semaphored queue for a producer-consumer type of relationship.
> 
> I don't think there's any way to pull this off using GCD, is there? I can't 
> change the complex process to work in discrete chunks. It needs to chug 
> through the data until it reaches a stopping point, and that might require 
> several waits on more data.

Could NSInputStream and NSOutputStream possibly provide what you need?

Charles

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