thread_sync.c: Clarify and document the behavior of timeout == 0 #6500
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[Feature #18982]
Instead of introducing an
exception: false
argument to havenon_block
return nil rather than raise, we can clearly document that a timeout of 0 immediately returns.The code is refactored a bit to avoid doing a time calculation in such case.
cc @ko1 @eregon