[fpc-pascal] Where is IsMultiThreaded set under Linux?

[Jonas Maebe]

On 08 Oct 2010, at 14:52, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> I thought about the timeout, and dived into the WaitFor code. So I
> changed my code from.
>
>    FThread.WaitFor;
>
> ..to...
>
>    WaitForThreadTerminate(FThread.Handle, 2000);


The timeout parameter is ignored when using cthreads, because the  
pthreads API does not support waiting for a thread termination with a  
timeout.

Furthermore, the whole point of WaitFor() is to block the current  
execution thread from continuing until the thread has finished (it's a  
synchronisation point). If you just want to quickly check whether the  
thread has finished, check FThread.Finished (followed by  
FThread.Waitfor to clean it up in case it's true).


Jonas