Querying thread-locking of a wave
thomas_braun
Mon, 10/30/2017 - 01:55 pm
To prevent any bugs I would like to query the thread-locking state (not sure how to call it).
This is the property of a wave which gets complained about in the error message "error: Wave is in use by preemptive thread. Can't be resized or killed.".
Can be triggered with
threadsafe static Function WorkerFunc(data)
WAVE data
do
DFREF dfr = ThreadGroupGetDFR(0, 0)
if(DataFolderExistsDFR(dfr))
break
endif
while(1)
return 1
End
static Function StartMe()
variable/G tgID
WAVE data
tgID = ThreadGroupCreate(1)
ThreadStart tgID, 0, WorkerFunc(data)
WAveclear data
End
Function Dostuff()
Make/O/N=1000 data
StartMe()
NVAR tgID
Make/O/N=(1001) data
End
WAVE data
do
DFREF dfr = ThreadGroupGetDFR(0, 0)
if(DataFolderExistsDFR(dfr))
break
endif
while(1)
return 1
End
static Function StartMe()
variable/G tgID
WAVE data
tgID = ThreadGroupCreate(1)
ThreadStart tgID, 0, WorkerFunc(data)
WAveclear data
End
Function Dostuff()
Make/O/N=1000 data
StartMe()
NVAR tgID
Make/O/N=(1001) data
End
Of course I could use a try and catch in various places, but that feels a bit like ringing the neighbours door bell to check if the national electricity grid is working.
If you want to request it as a feature, please send a request to WaveMetrics support with an explanation of the how you would use it.
As a workaround, you could put something in the wave note before passing the wave to the thread or use some kind of naming convention indicating that the wave has been passed to a thread.
October 31, 2017 at 12:09 pm - Permalink