[fpc-devel]promised tthread patch

[Johannes Berg]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 21:34, KJK::Hyperion wrote:
> I don't agree with the notes about Suspend/Resume. Suspending a thread on
> POSIX is possible, as long as you define what "suspending" means. Assuming
> a "suspended" thread is a thread that doesn't execute application code,
> forcing the target thread to wait on a mutex would be enough, IMHO (on a
> side note, this is how some third party extensions for Windows implement
> SIGSTOP semantics). Don't be too quick about dismissing "suspending" as
> "non-portable": condition variables and thread canceling were thought as
> *impossible* to implement on Win32, before RedHat successfully implemented
> the POSIX threads interface on Win32

Ok, let me rephrase.
Suspending at any arbitrary point as the semantics of .suspend() are, is
afaik impossible (and besides -- not a good idea either).

I do plan on adding an implementation for the thread calling .suspend on
itself though (could be implemented via the same pipe I already have in
there again).

johannes
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