On Tuesday, 22 September 2020 at 21:55:51 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 September 2020 at 09:32:13 UTC, drathier wrote:
What's the obvious way to put a timeout around a function
call? I'm thinking a 5 or 30 second timeout, and I'm expecting
it to pretty much never time out.
You have several options. Either you use the actor model
(spawn[Linked]) and send a termination message after a
specified time. Or you use a task and check for
yourTask.done(). Or you could create a Thread and check
isRunning.
(You didn't specify what you wanted to happen and if blocking
was allowed or not)
Blocking is perfectly fine. I'm wondering if I need things to be
shared now or something? Not used to programming with threads.
Adding a shared modifier recursively onto every piece of data
that needs it is a ton of work though.
I don't want to copy the data around since it's many gigabytes,
but I'm sure there won't be any data races; main thread will
start 2 threads, one for running the timer and one running the
function call. The main thread doesn't access the data until both
the timer and function call threads have stopped completely.
