Timeout Semantics

[dario-loi]

What is the preferred semantic to allow a given thread to timeout while waiting on a channel?

For example, assume that I have a producer that is going to input a certain amount of objects in a channel that is not known a priori, how can I write a consumer that is not going to deadlock as soon as the producer is finished?

Is there any such facility in the library or do I have to wrap the channel in user code? (is it even possible?).

[andreiavrammsd]

There is no timeout feature. You can try closing the channel, but the closable feature is known to not be stable in all cases.

The initial purpose of this channel was to live forever once started and only later I added the closable feature, which I did not test properly.