Timeout around function call

[drathier]

On Tuesday, 22 September 2020 at 21:55:51 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 September 2020 at 09:32:13 UTC, drathier wrote:
>> What's the obvious way to put a timeout around a function 
>> call? I'm thinking a 5 or 30 second timeout, and I'm expecting 
>> it to pretty much never time out.
>
> You have several options. Either you use the actor model 
> (spawn[Linked]) and send a termination message after a 
> specified time. Or you use a task and check for 
> yourTask.done(). Or you could create a Thread and check 
> isRunning.
>
> (You didn't specify what you wanted to happen and if blocking 
> was allowed or not)

Blocking is perfectly fine. I'm wondering if I need things to be 
shared now or something? Not used to programming with threads. 
Adding a shared modifier recursively onto every piece of data 
that needs it is a ton of work though.

I don't want to copy the data around since it's many gigabytes, 
but I'm sure there won't be any data races; main thread will 
start 2 threads, one for running the timer and one running the 
function call. The main thread doesn't access the data until both 
the timer and function call threads have stopped completely.