Async messages to a thread.

[Sean Kelly]

On Jul 29, 2013, at 8:28 AM, lindenk <ztaticnull at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ah, no I mean, what if do_some_blocking_function blocks for some indeterminate amount of time. I would like it to exit even when it is currently blocking (as it could be unpredictable when it will stop blocking).

Execute the blocking functions in a separate thread?  Really, this sounds like the kind of thing futures are for.  Alternately, maybe the sequence of blocking functions could call receive periodically, or maybe be executed in a fiber and yield periodically, etc.