How to terminate or suspend a Rust thread from another thread?

Question

Editor\'s note — this example was created before Rust 1.0 and the specific types have changed or been removed since then. The general questio

Answer 1

The ideal solution would be a Condvar. You can use wait_timeout in the std::sync module, as pointed out by @Vladimir Matveev.

This is the example from the documentation:

use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex, Condvar};
use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;

let pair = Arc::new((Mutex::new(false), Condvar::new()));
let pair2 = pair.clone();

thread::spawn(move|| {
    let &(ref lock, ref cvar) = &*pair2;
    let mut started = lock.lock().unwrap();
    *started = true;
    // We notify the condvar that the value has changed.
    cvar.notify_one();
});

// wait for the thread to start up
let &(ref lock, ref cvar) = &*pair;
let mut started = lock.lock().unwrap();
// as long as the value inside the `Mutex` is false, we wait
loop {
    let result = cvar.wait_timeout(started, Duration::from_millis(10)).unwrap();
    // 10 milliseconds have passed, or maybe the value changed!
    started = result.0;
    if *started == true {
        // We received the notification and the value has been updated, we can leave.
        break
    }
}