• Nrgyzer (7/7) Jan 30 2011 Hey,
• Sean Kelly (4/11) Jan 30 2011 Have the thread call sleep() or use a semaphore or mutex. If you want t...

Nrgyzer <nrgyzer gmail.com> writes:

Hey,

how can I interrupt/suspend threads in D2? core.thread only provides
start(), join() and similar, but nothing like interrupt() in JAVA.

I have a thread which sleeps for some seconds. Does join() interrupts
the Thread.sleep()-call? I don't want that the user have to wait some
seconds because a thread is running, but sleeping.


Thanks in advance!

Sean Kelly <sean invisibleduck.org> writes:

Nrgyzer Wrote:

 Hey,
 
 how can I interrupt/suspend threads in D2? core.thread only provides
 start(), join() and similar, but nothing like interrupt() in JAVA.

Have the thread call sleep() or use a semaphore or mutex.  If you want to
suspend a thread and have it be interruptable use a mutex combined with a
condition variable (from core.sync).
 
 I have a thread which sleeps for some seconds. Does join() interrupts
 the Thread.sleep()-call? I don't want that the user have to wait some
 seconds because a thread is running, but sleeping.

It doesn't interrupt the sleep() call if the thread is sleeping.  join() simply
waits for the thread to terminate normally.