From: Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>
Date: 2006-01-10T23:04:30+09:00
Subject: Re: opposite of Thread.wakeup

On 1/10/06, Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
> Mark Volkmann wrote:
> > If I create a thread and don't want it to be eligible to run until I
> > decide to make it eligible later, how do I make it sleep? In other
> > words, what's the opposite of Thread.wakeup?
> >
> > Thread::stop stops the execution of the current thread. I need a way
> > to stop execution of a thread that is not the current thread so that
> > it won't be scheduled.
>
> You use a ConditionVariable.  See the Queue example at
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?MultiThreading
> You need to invoke cond.wait and cond.signal.  HTH

That will definitely work, but I was hoping for something simpler like
a Thread.stop instance method. I suppose that isn't supported because
it is considered unsafe for the same reason it is deprecated in Java.

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R. Mark Volkmann
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