help with threads
in [Ruby]
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From: Oliver Fox on 30 Jun 2008 12:54 hi all, i'm trying to do some automated tasks with threads. Basically, my app is initialized with an input file, and an output path and some processing is done on that. I'm trying to automatically detect when the thread dies, so that it can tell the parent class that this thread is complete. Is there a nice way to do this without polling every thread? I seem to recall something relating to the Rufus::Scheduler stuff being able to do similar, but i can't remember the name of that or where i found it. any information would be great! thanks, ol. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From: Eric I. on 30 Jun 2008 17:52 On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Oliver Fox <olifoxpaul(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > hi all, > i'm trying to do some automated tasks with threads. > Basically, my app is initialized with an input file, and an output path > and some processing is done on that. > I'm trying to automatically detect when the thread dies, so that it can > tell the parent class that this thread is complete. > Is there a nice way to do this without polling every thread? I seem to > recall something relating to the Rufus::Scheduler stuff being able to do > similar, but i can't remember the name of that or where i found it. any > information would be great! Hi Oliver, Have you looked at the Monitor class and using MonitorMixin? I believe your main thread could do a "wait_while" and your child threads could do a "signal" when they're done to notify the main thread. This is assuming you have multiple child threads. If there's only one, then doing a "join" would be easier. I hope that helps, Eric ==== LearnRuby.com offers Rails & Ruby HANDS-ON public & ON-SITE workshops. Please visit http://LearnRuby.com for all the details.
From: Guillermo.Acilu on 1 Jul 2008 06:23 [Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] Hello Oliver, I needed to do something similar than you once, but in my case I needed to wait until all the threads were finished. I've just looped in the main thread while the Thread.list.size was greater than 1. I hope this helps, Guillermo From: Oliver Fox <olifoxpaul(a)googlemail.com> To: ruby-talk(a)ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML) Date: 30.06.2008 19:00 Subject: help with threads hi all, i'm trying to do some automated tasks with threads. Basically, my app is initialized with an input file, and an output path and some processing is done on that. I'm trying to automatically detect when the thread dies, so that it can tell the parent class that this thread is complete. Is there a nice way to do this without polling every thread? I seem to recall something relating to the Rufus::Scheduler stuff being able to do similar, but i can't remember the name of that or where i found it. any information would be great! thanks, ol. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From: Charles Oliver Nutter on 1 Jul 2008 09:06 Oliver Fox wrote: > hi all, > i'm trying to do some automated tasks with threads. > Basically, my app is initialized with an input file, and an output path > and some processing is done on that. > I'm trying to automatically detect when the thread dies, so that it can > tell the parent class that this thread is complete. > Is there a nice way to do this without polling every thread? I seem to > recall something relating to the Rufus::Scheduler stuff being able to do > similar, but i can't remember the name of that or where i found it. any > information would be great! A thread won't die without reason. If the thread completes normally, you can set a flag or set the thread's result to something non-nil (Thread.current[:some_key] = result) that you can check for. If it terminates early due to an exception, you can either rescue that exception or let it bubble out and terminate the thread, which will set the thread's value to the exception object. To avoid constantly polling, you want some kind of synchronization mechanism like those in the 'thread' library (Monitors, Semaphores, etc). - Charlie
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