Obedient threads
Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Thu Oct 2 04:36:06 PDT 2014
On Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 10:33:02 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> Just use non-blocking receives in main thread's event loop.
> When you get a message from child thread that it's finished
> playing and you decide you don't need that thread anymore, send
> a message to child "you're dismissed". The child should also
> have some loop to check for incoming messages non-blockingly.
> Upon receiving such message it should exit.
Thanks. I was thinking of something like that, only I haven't
found a way to set up non-blocking receives. What am I missing.
I'm sure it's something trivial.
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