Interrupting a long-running coroutine and moving it to another os-level thread

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Hi, I'm new to minicoro and try to understand its capabilities. The readme states:

The mco_coro object is not thread safe, you should lock each coroutine into a thread.

Does that mean that it's impossible to interrupt a long-running coroutine and move it to a different os-level thread?

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Does that mean that it's impossible to interrupt a long-running coroutine and move it to a different os-level thread?

That should be possible if you call mco_yield somewhere from the coroutine entry function, that is the only way to interrupt it (from inside it). What I meant there is that you should not call minicoro functions from different OS threads simultaneously (you would need to use a mutex for that).

You can migrate a coroutine to another thread to make a scheduler, just make sure the coroutine lifetime is always present at most one thread simultaneously.

Also you should take lot of care like not trying to resume a coroutine that is already running in another thread, the library will not catch such mistake.

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Thanks for clarification. As I understand it, we really can not "interrupt" a long-running coroutine from outside and move it to another os-level thread right after interruption.

Anyway, very nice library!