[Bordeaux-threads-devel] CONDITION-WAIT with timeout

Hi

Are there any plans to support a timeout for bordeaux-threads:condition-wait? The implementations I'm aware of support this threading primitive:

* ABCL could presumably do it since Java Object.wait can take a timeout * SBCL supports it using sb-thread:condition-wait with keyword :timeout [1] * anything with POSIX threads underneath could use pthread_cond_timedwait

The main variation seems to be between those implementations that use an absolute time and those that use a relative time (how long to wait in milliseconds for example).

Since I think I need this feature I might try to write a patch to do this for ABCL and SBCL if there is nothing already in the works (unless there is some technical problem I'm not seeing?)

Thanks Thomas Munro

[1] http://random-state.net/log/3523852985.html