From: "Eric I." <rubytraining@...>
Date: 2008-07-01T06:52:50+09:00
Subject: Re: help with threads

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Oliver Fox <olifoxpaul@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

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