feat: Adding threads1.rs with a focus on JoinHandles and waiting for
spawned threads to finish. Moved the original threads1.rs to threads2.rs with the focus on the Mutex and modifying shared data. #892
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@@ -878,6 +878,22 @@ name = "threads1"
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path = "exercises/threads/threads1.rs"
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mode = "compile"
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hint = """
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`JoinHandle` is a struct that is returned from a spawned thread:
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https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/fn.spawn.html
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A challenge with multi-threaded applications is that the main thread can
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finish before the spawned threads are completed.
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https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch16-01-threads.html#waiting-for-all-threads-to-finish-using-join-handle
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Collect the JoinHandles and wait for them to finish.
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https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/struct.JoinHandle.html
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"""
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[[exercises]]
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name = "threads2"
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path = "exercises/threads/threads2.rs"
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mode = "compile"
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hint = """
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`Arc` is an Atomic Reference Counted pointer that allows safe, shared access
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to **immutable** data. But we want to *change* the number of `jobs_completed`
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so we'll need to also use another type that will only allow one thread to
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@@ -898,14 +914,6 @@ while they are sleeping, since this will prevent the other thread from
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being allowed to get the lock. Locks are automatically released when
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they go out of scope.
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Ok, so, real talk, this was actually tricky for *me* to do too. And
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I could see a lot of different problems you might run into, so at this
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point I'm not sure which one you've hit :)
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Please open an issue if you're still running into a problem that
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these hints are not helping you with, or if you've looked at the sample
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answers and don't understand why they work and yours doesn't.
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If you've learned from the sample solutions, I encourage you to come
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back to this exercise and try it again in a few days to reinforce
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what you've learned :)"""
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