On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 15:57:47 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 15:25:57 UTC, Chris wrote:
Is there a way to flush a thread's message box other than
aborting the thread? MailBox is private:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/concurrency.d#L1778
flush from inside the thread? You could call receiveTimeout
with a 0 timer in a loop until it returns false.
Yes, from inside the thread. I have a worker thread (with
receiveTimeout) that is started when the program starts and sits
there waiting for input. I naively thought this was a great idea,
until I noticed that when input comes fast the mailbox grows and
the bloody thread won't stop until all the items in the mailbox
are processed. I was looking for something like `if (abort) {
mailbox.flush(); }`
