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Quote: AlertWait waits on a mutex and condition variable until a signal or explicit alert; an alert raises an exception
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The final aspect of [Modula-3's] Thread interface is … or computation. … A call to AlertWait behaves the same as … [unless alert-pending is true]. If you call Alert(t) when t is currently blocked on … m and then it raises the exception Alerted. … The call TestAlert atomically tests and clears the … [p. 115] Notice that if t is computing rather … responsibility to periodically call TestAlert in long-running computations. … Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: use TestAlert during long-running computations to allow thread interruption
Topic: waitfor condition in parallel processing (20 items)
Topic: interrupts (25 items)
Topic: non-preemptive task scheduling (16 items)