flush MessageBox

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 15:57:47 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 15:25:57 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> Is there a way to flush a thread's message box other than 
>> aborting the thread? MailBox is private:
>>
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/concurrency.d#L1778
>
> flush from inside the thread? You could call receiveTimeout 
> with a 0 timer in a loop until it returns false.

Yes, from inside the thread. I have a worker thread (with 
receiveTimeout) that is started when the program starts and sits 
there waiting for input. I naively thought this was a great idea, 
until I noticed that when input comes fast the mailbox grows and 
the bloody thread won't stop until all the items in the mailbox 
are processed. I was looking for something like `if (abort) { 
mailbox.flush(); }`