[Bordeaux-threads-devel] CONDITION-WAIT with timeout

[Stelian Ionescu]

On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 22:33 +0100, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Are there any plans to support a timeout for
> bordeaux-threads:condition-wait?  The implementations I'm
> aware of support this threading primitive:
> 
> * ABCL could presumably do it since Java Object.wait can take a timeout
> * SBCL supports it using sb-thread:condition-wait with keyword :timeout [1]
> * anything with POSIX threads underneath could use pthread_cond_timedwait
> 
> The main variation seems to be between those implementations that
> use an absolute time and those that use a relative time (how long
> to wait in milliseconds for example).
> 
> Since I think I need this feature I might try to write a patch to
> do this for ABCL and SBCL if there is nothing already in
> the works (unless there is some technical problem I'm not seeing?)

I'd like to, but what do we do for those implementations that don't
support timeouts ?

-- 
Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
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