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

[Stelian Ionescu]

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 01:20 +0100, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On 17 April 2012 15:11, Stelian Ionescu <sionescu at cddr.org> wrote:
> > I'd like to, but what do we do for those implementations that don't
> > support timeouts ?
> 
> I went through the existing implementations and googled for
> timeout variants of the mechanisms being used and found these:
> 
> ABCL: (threads:object-wait condition timeout)
> Allegro: ?
> Clisp: (mt:exemption exemption mutex :timeout timeout)
> Clozure: (ccl:timed-wait-on-semaphore semaphore timeout)
> CMUCL: ?
> Corman: ?
> ECL: (mp:condition-variable-timedwait condition mutex timeout)
> LispWorks simulated: ?
> LispWorks 6: (mp:condition-variable-wait condition mutex :timeout timeout)
> MCL: ?
> SBCL: (sb-thread:condition-wait condition mutex :timeout timeout)
> SCL: (thread:cond-var-timedwait condition mutex timeout)
> 
> I couldn't immediately grok those with question marks, but I
> suspect it's possible for most of them though.  I hope someone
> who knows those systems can comment.
> 
> I don't have any suggestion on what to do if there is no
> implementation apart from the obvious and unsatisfactory 'raise
> an error at runtime'.

Then I'd be grateful if you could add timeout support and send us a
patch :)

-- 
Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib

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