Subj : Re: thread::join on windows?
To   : comp.lang.tcl,comp.programming.threads
From : Phil Frisbie, Jr.
Date : Wed Feb 09 2005 09:42 pm

David N. Welton wrote:

> "Markus Elfring" <Markus.Elfring@web.de> writes:
> 
> 
>>>Hi, I'm trying to ascertain what thread::join does on windows.  It's
>>>basically a wrapper around Tcl_JoinThread, and that man page says:
>>
>>http://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclLib/Thread.htm
>>
>>
>>>    Windows currently does not support joinable threads. This flag
>>>    value is therefore ignored on this platform.
>>>
>>>Yet nothing like that is mentioned in the thread extension
>>>documentation, so I'm a bit confused...

Windows DOES support a mechanism very similar to joinable threads. You can call 
WaitForSingleObject() and GetExitCodeThread() to emulate a thread::join type 
function.

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Phil Frisbie, Jr.
Hawk Software
http://www.hawksoft.com

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