From: Jean-Hugues ROBERT <jean_hugues_robert@...>
Date: 2002-05-09T19:23:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#join doesn't accept a timeout?

At 16:39 09/05/2002 +0900, you wrote:
>In article <1020923593.140092.18089.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>,
>Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >In message "Thread#join doesn't accept a timeout?"
> >    on 02/05/09, Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> writes:
> >
> >|Ideally, Thread#join would look something like this:
> >|
> >|  def join(timeout = nil)
> >|    ...
> >|  end
> >|
> >|timeout = nil means wait forever, timeout = 0 means
> >|don't wait, and timeout >0 means wait that many
> >|milliseconds.

I guess timeout should be in seconds, as in sleep(), shouldn't it ?

Yours,

Jean-Hugues


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