[slime-devel] Threads attributes

[Terje Norderhaug]

On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
> Terje Norderhaug <terje at in-progress.com> writes:
>> On Jun 22, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
>>> Terje Norderhaug <terje at in-progress.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> The  slimefun swank:list-threads currently provides only four  
>>>> values
>>>> for each thread, namely id, name, status and description.
>>>>
>>>> However, it would be useful to have a generalized interface to  
>>>> other
>>>> information about threads, such as their priority, creation time,
>>>> idle time, and total run time.
>>>
>>> The idea is to compute a description string which contains such  
>>> data.
>>
>> A swank client (like slime) will have a hard time extracting thread
>> data from such a human readable description string.
>
> The description could be a plist instead of a string. How about that?

A plist with additional thread data would serve the purpose, just as  
long as the format is consistent between the implementations.

-- Terje Norderhaug