From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-09-10T22:53:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Difference between "sleep()" and "Thread.stop"?

2008/9/10 Iņaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>:
> Hi, is there any difference between doing:
>
>  sleep
>
> and:
>
>  Thread.stop
>

#sleep resumes automatically after a given time, #stop does not.

> In both cases the current thread is in "sleep" state.
>
> Also, why there is no way to stop/pause/sleep a thread different of the current?
> I mean something as:
>
>  t1 = Thread.current
>  Thread.new { t1.sleep }  <--- This doesn't exist (neither #stop or #pause)

Why should it?  With threads you use other mechanisms to control
execution, e.g. a blocking queue, synchronizing on a mutex etc.

Cheers

robert

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