[email protected] wrote:
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
Suspend and Resume have been deprecated, and I want to know how a
thread can
be suspended.
There is - to my knowledge - no safe way of doing so.
Can a thread safely suspend itself, subject to an external resume? If
not, what is the "official" alternative?
A thread can always suspend itself. It's the suspend by another thread that
is dangerous.
Thanks for that Michael. I've got a thread which runs for a stretch in
the background to query a database (to avoid a UI glitch), then suspends
itself until it's kicked back into life by the main thread approx 30
seconds later. Appears reliable on all tested platforms.
Put another way, I can see the argument for restricting access to
Suspend but I hope nobody has got plans to eliminate it completely.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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