Sent mail to David personally; meant to include the list.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Huelsmann ehuels@gmail.com Date: Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [armedbear-devel] threads, join, clos To: David Kirkman dkirkman@ucsd.edu
Hi David,
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:52 AM, David Kirkman dkirkman@ucsd.edu wrote:
Hi,
Is there an equivalent of java.lang.Thread.join() on the lisp side of things? I looked around in LispThread.java and threads.lisp, but I don't see anything obvious. I'd like to be able to write something like:
(let ((threads (loop for i from 0 to 5 collect (make-thread #'(lambda() (format t "hey~%")))))) (mapc #'thread-join threads) (format t "is for horses~%"))
I've attached a patch that implements this version of thread-join. It implements java semantics, this thread-join always returns nil.
I guess we didn't join our threads until now :-) Thanks for taking the time to code it up.
I have one question regarding the patch though: How would the caller know the difference between the scenario where an Interrupted exception occurs and the one where the thread is really joined?
Should we use the return value NIL to signal "not joined" and T for "joined"?
Bye,
Erik.