I noticed in the docs that threads aren't supporte...

# kotlin-native

[martmists]

I noticed in the docs that threads aren't supported in kotlin/native; Is there an example on background tasks that can be started once and stopped once, and keep updating an array for the entire duration they're active for?

[Tijl]

you can do this with a Worker

[martmists]

From what I could tell those used more of a futures-like approach, while I'm looking more for a background thread

[russhwolf]

If you're using the new native memory manager and a recent version of coroutines, you can do this pretty much the same way you would with coroutines on the jvm

[martmists]

Do you have an example? It should be noted that due to this being an exposed API, it has to be able to be called from a blocking context

[mbonnin]

FWIW, you can do pthread_create() on native

[kpgalligan]

You can also block on a worker waiting for a result, but in coroutines you can run blocking. If the call is blocking, though, what's the goal of a background thread? Just curious.

[Arkadii Ivanov]

And regardless of the memory model and coroutines versions, it is also possible with Reaktive, which has been supporting multi-threading in K/N for several years.

[martmists]

You can also block on a worker waiting for a result, but in coroutines you can run blocking. If the call is blocking, though, what's the goal of a background thread? Just curious.

The background thread would continuously monitor a process and update an array, and the blocking code would get the value of that array at certain intervals.