Yes, we need this ability. Externally terminating and otherwise interacting
with tasks is a good way to deal with things like timeouts and cancelling
distributed work.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Amit Murthy wrote:
> I think currently the only way to interrupt a task is when it is blocked
I think currently the only way to interrupt a task is when it is blocked on
a condition variable by using the "notify" call. Will be good to have a
"terminate(t::Task)" call.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Bob Cowdery wrote:
> Could you clarify please. If its on a blocking call how do I throw
Could you clarify please. If its on a blocking call how do I throw an error
and if its not complete why would the gc delete it.
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 3:27:18 PM UTC, Bob Cowdery wrote:
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> Is there any way to terminate a task that is stuck on a blocking call. I
> can see that I can call ista
