Creating Threads

[eNoVa]

Hi all
May you know that problem of functions like geturl...the server is waiting until the result is not faced.
MY questions now are:

How to create Threads ?
How to controll and synchronize them?
How can i get, gained information, from a running Thread?
Are there API-specific things i´ve to know?

I'm thankfull of every kind of information


Date Posted: February 03, 2008, 07:54:54 amOK
I tested a bit around and now I'm able to answer few questions, i posted before

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How to create Threads ? - Threadfunc ( [Parameter], 'procedure/function-name' );
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[sai`ke]

The soldat server is not thread safe. It is not wise to use threadfunc for anything if you don't want your scripts to crash.

[eNoVa]

Hi
i added threadfunc in my script and tested it out...
Up to now i have had no crashes,it works very well, but i faced one thing...it seem not to call everytime(seldom, but significant) my procedures/functions.

One question left, how can i check it , does threadfunc give a value back?

[EnEsCe]

Threads can never return a value.

[DorkeyDear]

Unfortunately, threads are very limited in Soldat Server scripting; so the only thing related to threads is ThreadFunc which has no return value (no need if there is nothing else to do with threads)
I would guess that in other programming languages, calling a function threaded would return the thread Id number, which then there may be other functions to manage/gather information about the thread; but not here..

[eNoVa]

Thank you for that fast replay.
So i reckon, there´s no Possibility to synchronize threads, are they ?
I think i have to resign oneself... geturl connected with PHP and MYSQL with live-actualisation is too UN-preformant.
Have you ever tryed to  script a mysql-class or something in that way  ?

Date Posted: February 05, 2008, 08:18:40 amOK
today it happened...
My server crashed like you have predicted...
I was absence so i dont really know what happened...
I post the error-log may its usefull for you...

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<Player> could not respond
[Error] <scriptname> -> <threadedprocedure>: Access violation at address 7C921629 in module 'ntdll.dll'

• Chat Abort

Server Encountered an error:

Shutting down server...
{
 comment: since this crash geturl does not work correctly
[Error] <scriptname> -> <activateserver>: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
And yes, the page is avalible...
}
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in my Threaded procedure is only called a geturl procedure and only one threaded-procedure is(/should) running.

BTW could it be that geturl gives a value back not till the page has been loaded fully and there is no time-limit?
I mean, maybe you know, sometimes a page hangs up and you can wait and wait and the page will never be loaded?
I just wanted to ask, maybe the error occured because too much simultaneous threads were runnning?