How do I make one thread wait until another thread exits?
How do I make one thread wait until another thread exits?
- Subject: How do I make one thread wait until another thread exits?
- From: Oleg Krupnov <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:25:29 +0200
This seems a trivial question for a multi-threading app, but I haven't
been successful in implementing this in Cocoa. I've got deadlocks and
strange logs for seemingly no reason.
Here's my problem: There is the main thread that starts a worker
NSOperation to do some job (-[NSOperationQueue addOperation]). In case
if the main thread is asked to start another NSOperation, it must
cancel the current operation, *wait until it exits*, and start another
one.
What I have tried: the operation object creates and locks an NSLock
object in its -init. When the main thread cancels the operation
(-cancel), it does the following:
// cancel
[m_operation cancel];
// wait until operation exits
[[m_operation isCompletedLock] lock];
// the operation object eventually checks the -isCancelled flag and
then sends -unlock to the lock, and its thread exits.
// unlock the lock
[[m_operation isCompletedLock] unlock];
// release
[m_operation release];
m_operation = nil;
The effect is that sometimes it works but sometimes not, and I get
logs in the console:
*** -[NSLock lock]: deadlock (<NSLock: 0x197a90> '(null)')
*** -[NSLock unlock]: lock (<NSLock: 0x197a90> '(null)') unlocked from
thread which did not lock it
*** Break on _NSLockError() to debug.
Is this a valid way of implementing the subject? Am I using NSLock
correctly for this purpose? Or if not, can someone please post the
correct way of doing this?
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