"waking up" a thread

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:59:39 -0400, funog <funog at ifrance.com> wrote:

> Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:00:22 -0400, funog <funog at ifrance.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Is there a way to make the current thread sleep for a given amount of
>> > time, while having the possibility of another thread "waking it up"
>> > earlier?
>>
>> Create a mutex/condition pair, then have one thread wait on the  
>> condition
>> with a timeout.
>>
>> The second thread signals the condition to wake it up early.
>>
>> If you are using D1, then you have to use Tango (I think), and the  
>> classes
>> are tango.core.sync.Mutex and tango.core.sync.Condition
>>
>> If you are using D2, then they are in druntime, probably
>> core.sync.Condition and core.sync.Mutex, not sure though.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>
> Thanks for your answer.
> If there is a way without tango I am interested.

Yes, use D2.

-Steve