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mailbox

Documentation

Thread-safe queues with timeout.

mailbox-timeout-condition?

mailbox-timeout-condition? OBJprocedure

Is the OBJ a mailbox timeout condition?

A mailbox timeout condition is a composite condition of 'exn, 'mailbox, and 'timeout conditions.

The 'exn condition has properties of 'location, 'message, 'arguments, and 'call-chain.

The 'mailbox condition has properties of 'box.

The 'timeout condition has properties of 'time, and 'value.

The addition of the timeout properties as 'exn 'arguments is deprecated.

mailbox-timeout-exception?

mailbox-timeout-exception? OBJprocedure

Synonym of mailbox-timeout-condition?.

make-mailbox

make-mailbox #!optional NAMEprocedure

Returns a new mailbox object.

NAME
* ; default (gensym 'mailbox)
  • identify this mailbox.

mailbox?

mailbox? OBJprocedure

Is the OBJ a mailbox?

mailbox-name

mailbox-name MAILBOXprocedure

Returns the name of the MAILBOX.

mailbox-empty?

mailbox-empty? MAILBOXprocedure

If there are no queued objects in the MAILBOX, then this procedure returns #t, otherwise it returns #f.

mailbox-count

mailbox-count MAILBOXprocedure

Returns the number of queued objects for the MAILBOX.

mailbox-waiting?

mailbox-waiting? MAILBOXprocedure

Is any thread waiting for the MAILBOX?

mailbox-waiters

mailbox-waiters MAILBOXprocedure

Returns a list of the threads waiting for the MAILBOX.

mailbox-send!

mailbox-send! MAILBOX OBJprocedure

Queues the data object OBJ. If any threads exist that are waiting for input on MAILBOX, the execution of the first one will be resumed. The data will be read out of a mailbox in the same order in which is written in (in FIFO manner).

mailbox-receive!

mailbox-receive! MAILBOX #!optional TIMEOUT DEFAULTprocedure

If there is any data in the MAILBOX, then the first object will be removed and returned as the result. If the mailbox is currently empty, the current thread will suspended until data is available.

TIMEOUT is a SRFI-18 time object or the real number of seconds.

Should TIMEOUT be specified and occur the DEFAULT, if supplied, will be returned. Otherwise a mailbox timeout exception will be signaled for the calling thread. The DEFAULT value cannot be (void).

mailbox-wait!

mailbox-wait! MAILBOX #!optional TIMEOUTprocedure

Similar to mailbox-receive!, but does not remove the received result from the queue of pending data.

TIMEOUT is a SRFI-18 time object or the real number of seconds.

Should TIMEOUT be specified and occur a mailbox timeout exception will be signaled for the calling thread.

mailbox-push-back!

mailbox-push-back! MAILBOX OBJprocedure

Pushes the data object OBJ into the first position of a mailbox.

mailbox-push-back-list!

mailbox-push-back-list! MAILBOX OBJSprocedure

Pushes the list of objects OBJS back into the mailbox, so that (car OBJS) becomes the next receivable item.

make-mailbox-cursor

make-mailbox-cursor MAILBOXprocedure

Returns an object which can enumerate a mailbox.

Multiple cursors can scan, and mutate, the same mailbox.

mailbox-cursor?

mailbox-cursor? OBJprocedure

Is the OBJ a mailbox-cursor?

mailbox-cursor-mailbox

mailbox-cursor-mailbox MAILBOX-CURSORprocedure

Returns the mailbox object associated with the mailbox cursor.

mailbox-cursor-next

mailbox-cursor-next MAILBOX-CURSOR #!optional TIMEOUT DEFAULTprocedure

Returns the next object in the mailbox queue, waiting if necessary.

The mailbox queue is scanned from oldest to newest.

TIMEOUT is a SRFI-18 time object or the real number of seconds.

Should TIMEOUT be specified and occur the DEFAULT, if supplied, will be returned. Otherwise a mailbox timeout exception will be signaled for the calling thread. The DEFAULT value cannot be (void).

mailbox-cursor-rewind

mailbox-cursor-rewind MAILBOX-CURSORprocedure

Position the cursor at the oldest message in the mailbox.

mailbox-cursor-extract-and-rewind

mailbox-cursor-extract-and-rewind MAILBOX-CURSORprocedure

Remove from the associated mailbox queue the last object returned by mailbox-cursor-next and position the cursor at the oldest message in the mailbox.

The extraction is not performed without a previous call to mailbox-cursor-next.

mailbox-cursor-rewound?

mailbox-cursor-rewound? MAILBOX-CURSORprocedure

Is the MAILBOX-CURSOR positioned at the start of the mailbox queue?

mailbox-cursor-unwound?

mailbox-cursor-unwound? MAILBOX-CURSORprocedure

Is the MAILBOX-CURSOR positioned at the end of the mailbox queue?

Usage

(require-extension mailbox)

or

(require-library mailbox)
...
(import mailbox)

Examples

(define (consumer ch)
  (make-thread
    (lambda ()
      (let loop ()
        (print (current-thread) ": reading " (mailbox-receive! ch))
        (loop) ) ) ) )

(define ch (make-mailbox))
(thread-start! (consumer ch))
(for-each
  (lambda (x)
    (print (current-thread) ": writing " x)
    (mailbox-send! ch x) )
  '(33 44 55 hello) )

Notes

Author

felix winkelmann

Kon Lovett

Requirements

check-errors condition-utils record-variants setup-helper

Version history

2.3.1
Fix name type.
2.3.0
Add types.
2.2.3
2.2.2
Expand mailbox-timeout-condition.
2.2.1
2.2.0
Included inline-type-checks.scm so all includes are egg-local.
2.1.3
Fix for resuming a thread when mailbox empty; reported by Jeronimo Pellegrini. Added mailbox-cursor-unwound?. The mailbox-name can be an arbitrary Scheme object.
2.1.2
2.1.1
2.1.0
Needs "check-errors" extension.
2.0.0
Port to hygienic Chicken.

License

Copyright (c) 2003, Felix L. Winkelmann All rights reserved.

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