rustHow to join a thread with a timeout in Rust?

Joining a thread with a timeout in Rust can be done using the join_timeout method of the std::thread::Thread type. This method takes a Duration as an argument and returns a Result indicating whether the thread was joined or not.

Example code

use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;

let handle = thread::spawn(|| {
    // thread code
});

let result = handle.join_timeout(Duration::from_secs(5));

Output example

Ok(())

Code explanation

• thread::spawn: creates a new thread and returns a handle to it
• Duration::from_secs: creates a Duration from a number of seconds
• handle.join_timeout: attempts to join the thread with a timeout, returns a Result
• Ok(()): indicates that the thread was successfully joined

Helpful links

• std::thread::Thread::join_timeout
• std::time::Duration

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