Top "Blocking" questions

Blocking mode I/O blocks the issuing thread until the operation transfers at least one byte or an error or end of stream occurs.

SQL Server ALTER field NOT NULL takes forever

I want to alter a field from a table which has about 4 million records. I ensured that all of these …

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Using std::conditional_variable to wait on a condition

For simplicity, let's assume that we have only one conditional variable to match a single condition that is reflected by …

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What is a blocking function?

What is a blocking function or a blocking call? This is a term I see again and again when referring …

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Best method to "block" until certain condition is met

I would like to create some method to be used in a generic way, were it would block (unless a …

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Multiple receivers on a single channel. Who gets the data?

Unbuffered channels block receivers until data is available on the channel. It's not clear to me how this blocking behaves …

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Android I/zygote64:Waiting for a blocking GC ProfileSaver

I'm having this problem when I debug my app. It blocks at this line and I don't know what is …

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Go project's main goroutine sleep forever?

Is there any API to let the main goroutine sleep forever? In other words, I want my project always run …

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Wait for Task to Complete without Blocking UI Thread

I have a fairly complex WPF application that (much like VS2013) has IDocuments and ITools docked within the main shell …

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Google Analytics - Blocks HTML/page rendering

I have used the "Better Google Analytics JavaScript that doesn’t block page downloading" to load Google Analytics dynamically so …

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Advantages of Java NIO in blocking mode versus traditional I/O?

I have pretty much already decided not to use asynchronous, non-blocking Java NIO. The complexity versus benefit is very questionable …

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