On Friday, 28 July 2023 at 18:17:18 UTC, Gjiergji wrote:
I am coming from a C# background. I understood that there is no
async/await equivalent in D (except fibers which are not
suitable for multi threading), but if I am using threads, what
is the D idiom to implement cancellation?
Usually a long running thread looks like this (in C#):
```csharp
try
{
while (!cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested)
{
//do some work
await SomethingAsync(cancellationToken);
//do some other work
await Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5000),
cancellationToken);
}
}
catch (OperationCancelledException e) when (e.Token ==
cancellationToken)
{
//someone cancelled any of the await calls above, we can
swallow it or log it
}
```
The question is how do I pass a `cancellationToken` to the
calls from the loop in order to terminate them before
completion. For example, I learnt about `Thread.sleep` in
phobos, but I cannot pass a cancellation token in order to
cancel it before the intended sleep duration.
Thx.
You could use a thread to check if the token has been sent via
message passing, and when it is sent, throw an exception, like
this:
```d
import std.concurrency;
Tid tid;
void foo()
{
try
{
tid = spawn(&bar);
// do stuff
}
catch(Exception e)
{
// ...
}
}
void bar()
{
bool terminate = false;
terminate = receiveOnly!bool();
if(terminate)
{
throw new Exception("Thread terminated");
}
}
void main()
{
spawn(&foo);
// ...
if(needsToTerminateFooForSomeReason)
tid.send(true);
// ...
}
```
This does however, terminate with signal 11 upon sending the
terminate signal, and I'm not sure why.
