[vdr] [RFE] Soft-cancel cThread

[Klaus Schmidinger]

Udo Richter wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>>> There are two ways this could be done. First, by adding a function 
>>> SoftCancel() { running=false; }. Or second, by modifying Cancel() to 
>>> just set running=false if called with Cancel(-1) or Cancel(0,false) 
>>> or similar.
>>
>> I would prefer using -1 as a special value for this, because this
>> wouldn't require an interface change.
> 
> Agreed. I don't think that someone ever called Cancel(-1) before, so it 
> should be ok to use that.
> 
> Btw: This one is shorter and functionally identical:
> 
> --- thread.c.old    2006-08-20 16:41:09.273625000 +0200
> +++ thread.c    2006-09-24 14:22:59.064500000 +0200
> @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@
>  void cThread::Cancel(int WaitSeconds)
>  {
>    running = false;
> -  if (active) {
> +  if (active && WaitSeconds > -1) {
>       if (WaitSeconds > 0) {
>          for (time_t t0 = time(NULL) + WaitSeconds; time(NULL) < t0; ) {
>              if (!Active())

Well, that's fine with me, too.

I guess you'll also want me to increase the API version number
if this goes into version 1.4.4?

Klaus