Re: waiting on a thread
Re: waiting on a thread
- Subject: Re: waiting on a thread
- From: Dennis Falling <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:32:47 -0600
Yeah, I was just not wanting to have to pass even more arguments to my
thread. I'll just overcome my laziness and pass the necessary info to
let my thread delete the files.
Thanks,
-dennis
On Dec 13, 2004, at 10:58 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote:
Spawning a thread, and then doing nothing until the thread completes,
is the same thing as calling the thread's main procedure without
bothering with a thread. Yes, it defeats the purpose of having a
thread.
I gather your main thread of execution is done with your files once it
has handed them off to the processing thread. Why not have the
processing thread take ownership of those files, and delete them
itself when it is done?
If it's more complicated than that, you'll have to work out some sort
of reference-counting scheme for the files, deleting when the count
goes to zero. (But the increment for the processing thread's claim
would have to be made before that thread is started.)
-- F
On 13 Dec 2004, at 10:17 AM, Dennis Falling wrote:
Is there any way to have a method spawn a thread, then wait for that
thread to end before continuing with other calls in that method?
Does this negate the purpose of threads? Basically, I'm calling a
method which will use a few files, and then deleting those files in
the calling method. However, since the method call is a new thread,
I'm deleting the files before that thread ever gets to them. Ideas?
--
Fritz Anderson
Consulting Programmer Chicago, Illinois
http://resume.manoverboard.org/
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