On Jul 29, 2013, at 8:28 AM, lindenk <ztaticn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ah, no I mean, what if do_some_blocking_function blocks for some > indeterminate amount of time. I would like it to exit even when it is > currently blocking (as it could be unpredictable when it will stop blocking).
Execute the blocking functions in a separate thread? Really, this sounds like the kind of thing futures are for. Alternately, maybe the sequence of blocking functions could call receive periodically, or maybe be executed in a fiber and yield periodically, etc.
