Re: timeout for thread-join?

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

Vladimir Tzankov wrote:
> mutex-lock and exemption-wait accept :timeout argument. The same
> behavior can be achieved by using with-timeout but the former is more
> efficient - it does not involve thread suspension (at safe points) and
> posix signal (SIGUSR1).
> 
> So the question is whether to add :timeout argument to thread-join
> (and return :timeout as second value in case thread has not ended)?
> This will be consistent with other MT waiting functions (all of them
> accept :timeout). Use case is to wait on thread for certain time and
> interrupt it if timeout elapses. WDYT?

I don't see how this could hurt.