Question

I have an array of threads, and I want to Join them all with a timeout (i.e. see if they have all finished within a certain timeout). I’m looking for something equivalent to WaitForMultipleObjects or a way of passing the thread handles into WaitHandle.WaitAll, but I can’t seem to find anything in the BCL that does what I want.

I can of course loop through all the threads (see below), but it means that the overall function could take timeout * threads.Count to return.

private Thread[] threads;

public bool HaveAllThreadsFinished(Timespan timeout)
{
     foreach (var thread in threads)
     {
        if (!thread.Join(timeout))
        {
            return false;
        }                
     }
     return true;
}

Answer 1

But within this loop you can decrease timeout value:

private Thread[] threads;

public bool HaveAllThreadsFinished(Timespan timeout)
{
     foreach (var thread in threads)
     {
        Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        if (!thread.Join(timeout))
        {
            return false;
        }
        sw.Stop();
        timeout -= Timespan.FromMiliseconds(sw.ElapsedMiliseconds);                
     }
     return true;
}