From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Return value of finished threads Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:14:04 -0600 Message-ID: <87h8kt3hcj.fsf@tromey.com> References: <87h8kuq7kf.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1532110373 1893 195.159.176.226 (20 Jul 2018 18:12:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:12:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 20 20:12:48 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fgZtY-0000OQ-LT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 20:12:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49291 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgZvf-0002GF-IG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:14:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgZv2-0002Fz-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:14:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgZuz-0000HL-Om for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:14:20 -0400 Original-Received: from gateway34.websitewelcome.com ([192.185.149.46]:18178) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgZuz-0000D0-EH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:14:17 -0400 Original-Received: from cm12.websitewelcome.com (cm12.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.8]) by gateway34.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB141115D82 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:14:05 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from box5379.bluehost.com ([162.241.216.53]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id gZunfYEtxSjJAgZunfKieo; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:14:05 -0500 X-Authority-Reason: nr=8 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tromey.com; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=iS2ZzgRbtiUWDqd0p/p6IVwcZW8XdfpsyG8vtnNz/Ko=; b=F79ByKLohkoo20OzNKMg/eFXBH oUxT4M8g9YcfVmjELm4IC/UQyHuaWtutXi1lKe9DGacKSCrSFarNzPCeTCC8p84NJ+c1a8+ztduZ6 IsnvAbLo5IY1W/m57CNdVt2Lt; Original-Received: from 75-166-85-72.hlrn.qwest.net ([75.166.85.72]:54938 helo=pokyo) by box5379.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1fgZun-002CDD-Dv; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:14:05 -0500 X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <87h8kuq7kf.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:56:48 +0200") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - box5379.bluehost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - tromey.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 75.166.85.72 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1fgZun-002CDD-Dv X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: 75-166-85-72.hlrn.qwest.net (pokyo) [75.166.85.72]:54938 X-Source-Auth: tom+tromey.com X-Email-Count: 2 X-Source-Cap: ZWx5bnJvYmk7ZWx5bnJvYmk7Ym94NTM3OS5ibHVlaG9zdC5jb20= X-Local-Domain: yes X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 192.185.149.46 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227593 Archived-At: >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Albinus writes: Michael> What I'm missing is a simple possibility to collect the return values of Michael> the respective finished threads (`find-file-noselect' calls), which is a Michael> buffer or a list of buffers. Michael> So I'm wondering if we could extend thread support by an indication of Michael> the thread result, when finished. One idea would be that `thread-join' Michael> returns with that value. This doesn't seem all that hard to implement. Also if the thread exited due to an exception of some kind, this could be propagated by thread-join as well. Michael> The documentation recommends the use of Michael> global variables, which would be inconvenient for many threads to supervise. Or you can use a queue of some kind and have each worker push its result there. Tom