Waiting for Threads to Stop

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <lzBd5.7626$IZ1.59773 at iad-read.news.verio.net>,
Doug Fort <dougfort at downright.com> wrote:
>
>I have several cases where I want one thread to wait for one or more other
>threads to terminate.  I've had poor results attempting to spin on isAlive()
>in join().  I'm contemplating  using a  semaphore.  Has anyone got a more
>elegant idiom?

If you're waiting for one thread, that's reasonably easy.  If you're
waiting for all of a group of threads, use a semaphore.  But if you're
waiting for any one of a group of threads, that's a bit more tricky.
I'd suggest waiting on a queue, where the threads dump their data into
the queue.
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