This adds most of the thread features visible to emacs lisp.

I roughly followed the Bordeaux threads API:

http://trac.common-lisp.net/bordeaux-threads/wiki/ApiDocumentation

... but not identically.  In particular I chose not to implement
interrupt-thread or destroy-thread, but instead a thread-signalling
approach.

I'm still undecided about *default-special-bindings* (which I did not
implement).  I think it would be more emacs-like to capture the let
bindings at make-thread time, but IIRC Stefan didn't like this idea
the first time around.

There are one or two semantics issues pointed out in the patch where I
could use some advice.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/data.c b/src/data.c
index d0ef5734abc..fd2194fe1ae 100644
--- a/src/data.c
+++ b/src/data.c
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ static Lisp_Object Qchar_table, Qbool_vector, Qhash_table;
 static Lisp_Object Qsubrp, Qmany, Qunevalled;
 Lisp_Object Qfont_spec, Qfont_entity, Qfont_object;
 static Lisp_Object Qdefun;
+Lisp_Object Qthread;
 
 Lisp_Object Qinteractive_form;
 
@@ -211,6 +212,8 @@ for example, (type-of 1) returns `integer'.  */)
 	return Qfont_entity;
       if (FONT_OBJECT_P (object))
 	return Qfont_object;
+      if (THREADP (object))
+	return Qthread;
       return Qvector;
 
     case Lisp_Float:
@@ -458,6 +461,16 @@ DEFUN ("floatp", Ffloatp, Sfloatp, 1, 1, 0,
   return Qnil;
 }
 
+DEFUN ("threadp", Fthreadp, Sthreadp, 1, 1, 0,
+       doc: /* Return t if OBJECT is a thread.  */)
+  (Lisp_Object object)
+{
+  if (THREADP (object))
+    return Qt;
+  else
+    return Qnil;
+}
+
 
 /* Extract and set components of lists */
 
@@ -3091,6 +3104,7 @@ syms_of_data (void)
   DEFSYM (Qchar_table, "char-table");
   DEFSYM (Qbool_vector, "bool-vector");
   DEFSYM (Qhash_table, "hash-table");
+  DEFSYM (Qthread, "thread");
   /* Used by Fgarbage_collect.  */
   DEFSYM (Qinterval, "interval");
   DEFSYM (Qmisc, "misc");
@@ -3133,6 +3147,7 @@ syms_of_data (void)
   defsubr (&Ssubrp);
   defsubr (&Sbyte_code_function_p);
   defsubr (&Schar_or_string_p);
+  defsubr (&Sthreadp);
   defsubr (&Scar);
   defsubr (&Scdr);
   defsubr (&Scar_safe);