Hi,
1) memvars are local to the thread including PUBLICs. I use a few memvars to set some global variables/setting, like, comma separator, help file name, etc. I do not change it later during program execution. In MT these PUBLIC memvars are visible only in main thread. Do you suggest to duplicate memvars in all threads, or use another approach?
2) We use HB_ATOM_INC for strings usage counters. Can HB_ITEMs used by a few threads, or each thread uses its own HB_ITEMs? For example, can we pass parameters to hb_threadStart() by reference? If HB_ITEMs can be shared among threads, then we need synchronization to access HB_ITEMs value (not reference counter only).
3) threads can be used to simplify implementation of IO. It's easier to implement synchronous (blocking) IO, let say, wait for some data on COM port, instead of asynchronous IO (processing some notification about data arival, etc). How can this blocking IO thread can be terminated? Is it OK to kill a thread if I do not want to listen port any more and want to exit application? We do not have function to terminate thread among hb_thread*().
Sorry, for dumb questions. Just MT is new think for me. And I would like to put some communication code into synchronous mode, to avoid confusing protocol state machine.
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