On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Andre Merzky wrote:
Quoting [Tom Goodale] (Aug 25 2005):
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Andre Merzky wrote:
Hi all,
the wait currently throws a NotRunning exception if the tast is not running anymore. That basically mean that _every_ wait has to be put into a try/catch, since the programmer does not know in advance if the task is still active.
The can do a getState on the task.
You have a race condition then:
state = task.getState ();
# task finishes now
if ( state == Running ) { task.wait (-1.0); # throws an NotRunning exception }
So that does not help.
Good point, but it does if we also change the exception, although they still might want to put a try around it to catch someone cancelling the task in the meantime; on the other hand since that could only happen from within the same program, it's probably something the programmer can decide if they need to do. Tom