On 20/10/2009, at 5:28 PM, Shashanka L wrote:
-(void)newThread { NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc]init]; //Some operations... do //Keeps thread alive till date {[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode beforeDate:[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow: 0.1]];} while (mShouldThreadAlive); //Waiting for other process to complete [pool release]; }
Mind you, having said what I just said, this is a bad approach anyway. You should not "keep a thread alive" until it gets some flag, that's just wasting CPU time doing nothing but spinning. Instead the thread should sleep until it has something to do. If you need to wait for another thread to finish, use a NSConditionLock to do it properly. Also, if this code is representative, you are spinning it after all the processing has finished, which is pointless. Just let it terminate if it has nothing more to do.
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