Re: Return value of finished threads

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Albinus <address@hidden> 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