A condition variable contains a value and an associated queue. When a thread waits on a condition variable inside a monitor, it exits the monitor and is placed in the condition variables queue, Threads wait in the queue until signaled by another thread (Deitel et al, 2004) This wiki is for helping your peers understand how a condition variable works.

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