Synchronize Class fields between different threads

[DrCataclysm]

On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:27:41 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:13:26 UTC, DrCataclysm wrote:
>> On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 13:50:56 UTC, rikki cattermole 
>> wrote:
>>> Remember this bit: Everything on the heap, is not 
>>> thread-local, it is global. This includes everything inside a 
>>> class.
>>>
>>> When you synchronize (statement) it is locking and then 
>>> unlocking a mutex. A class has a mutex, simple! It only 
>>> prevent multiple threads modifying a single thing at specific 
>>> times, thats all.
>>
>> this is my implementation of Accept
>>
>>
>> private void Accept(){
>>         // start accepting in a different thread
>>         try{
>>             _client = _server.accept();
>>             
>> emit(ClientConnected(_client.remoteAddress.toAddrString));
>>             auto _acceptTask = task(&this.Accept);
>>             _acceptTask.executeInNewThread();
>>             Receive();
>>         }
>>         catch (SocketAcceptException e){
>>             writeln("Error while accepting connection: " ~ 
>> e.msg);
>>         }
>>     }
>>
>> Is _client on the Heap or the Stack? If it is on the Stack, 
>> how would i get in on the Heap?
>
> _client is allocated in the heap.
>
> Socket accept(); returns the socket created from Socket 
> accepting().
>
> Which is like below:
>
>  protected Socket accepting() pure nothrow
>     {
>         return new Socket;
>     }

thank you, i thought i was going mad.

It is working now. The problem was that the debugger in eclipse 
ddt seems to completely broken. If i run it directly from bash it 
is working.

One last question: is there a function in the std to wait for a 
task to finish within a time limit?