[chuck-users] Stopping and restart shreds

[Ollie Glass]

>
>> I'd like to use functions to stop and restart shreds. Is this the
>> right way to do it? It doesn't seem to be working properly - I get
>> errors from some shreds when I thought they'd all stopped.
>>
>> Shred shredA, shredB;
>>
>> fun void sporkAll() {
>> 	spork ~ funA() @=> shredA;
>> 	spork ~ funB() @=> shredB;
>> 	me.yield();
>> }
>>
>> fun void killAllShreds() {
>> 	shredA.exit();
>> 	shredB.exit();
>> 	me.yield();
>> }
>>
>
> In previous versions of chuck invoking 'exit' on shred didn't seem to
> work (for me). Instead I was killing shreds in this way:
>
> shredA.id => machine.remove;
>
> But in 1.2.0.6 'exit' seems to work properly.
>
> Another significant note: the shred which is calling these functions
> must not exit. Otherwise those functions won't work for some reason.
>
> Developers, please correct me if I'm wrong :)

The ideas about a join method sound great for the future, but I  
currently have threads I can't stop with either the shred.exit()  
machine.remove techniques. Is there any kind of kill function I can  
use as a workaround for now?

Ollie