Ruby in a Nutshell

Name

ThreadsWait — Thread termination watcher class

Synopsis

This class watches termination of multiple threads.

Required Library

require ‘thwait’

Class Methods

ThreadsWait::all_waits(th,...)

ThreadsWait::all_waits(th...) {...}

Waits until all specified threads are terminated. If a block is supplied for the method, evaluates it for each thread termination.

ThreadsWait.new(th...)

Creates a ThreadsWait object, specifying threads to wait.

Instance Methods

th.threads

Lists threads to be synchronized

th.empty?

Returns true if there is no thread to be synchronized.

th.finished?

Returns true if there is any terminated thread.

th.join(th...)

Waits for specified threads.

th.join_nowait(th...)

Specifies threads to wait; non-blocking.

th.next_wait

Waits until any specified thread is terminated.

th.all_waits

th.all_waits{...}

Waits until all specified threads are terminated. If a block is supplied for the method, evaluates it for each thread termination.