On Tuesday, 12 February 2013 at 10:08:14 UTC, FG wrote:
On 2013-02-12 07:58, monarch_dodra wrote:
I think I didn't explain myself very well. I have my single
"master" thread
which has a "thread-global" mailbox, but I have 3 different
objects that are
sharing that mailbox.
OK, I finally get what you are saying.
You need to create a mailbox and a unique tid for every Manager
(and probably would have to change Manager into a class).
Unfortunately this won't work out of the box, as for example
receiveOnly and friends use only the default mailbox of the
current thread.
struct Manager
{
Tid tid;
MessageBox mbox;
this(string s)
{
this.mbox = new MessageBox
tid = Tid(new Mailbox);
spawn(&worker, s, tid);
}
string get()
{
// you'd have to rewrite receive to use custom mbox
return tid.myReceiveOnly!string();
}
}
Hum, I'll have to try to play around with that. For one thing,
"MessageBox" is private.
Good news is my manager is already a class.
As for the re-implement of receive to work on a custom Tid, maybe
it might be better to forget about the tid, and implement it on
directly on the mailbox? Something like this:
//----
struct Manager
{
MessageBox mbox;
this(string s)
{
this.mbox = new MessageBox
Tid managerTid = Tid(new Mailbox);
spawn(&worker, s, managerTid);
}
string get()
{
// you'd have to rewrite receive to use custom mbox
return mbox.receiveOnly!string();
//Or just straight up:
mbox.get();
}
}
//----
I don't know, I'll try and see how it goes.
