Fixed newTask()

docs/changes.md

@@ -523,6 +523,8 @@ Added
 
 Changed
 ---
+- multi:newTask(task) is not tied to the processor it is created on.
+- `multi:getTasks()` renamed to `multi:getRunners()`, should help with confusion between multi:newTask()
 - changed how multi adds unpack to the global namespace. Instead we capture that value into multi.unpack.
 - multi:newUpdater(skip, func) -- Now accepts func as the second argument. So you don't need to call OnUpdate(func) after creation. 
 - multi errors now internally call `multi.error` instead of `multi.print`

init.lua

@@ -1011,10 +1011,10 @@ function multi:newTStep(start,reset,count,set)
 	return c
 end
 
-local tasks = {}
+multi.tasks = {}
 
 function multi:newTask(func)
-	tasks[#tasks + 1] = func
+	self.tasks[#self.tasks + 1] = func
 end
 
 local scheduledjobs = {}
@@ -1086,6 +1086,7 @@ function multi:newProcessor(name, nothread, priority)
 	c.Type = multi.registerType("process", "processes")
 	local Active =  nothread or false
 	c.Name = name or ""
+	c.tasks = {}
 	c.threads = {}
 	c.startme = {}
 	c.parent = self
@@ -1175,6 +1176,20 @@ function multi:newProcessor(name, nothread, priority)
 		c.process:Destroy()
 	end
 
+	c:newThread("Task Handler", function()
+		local self = multi:getCurrentProcess()
+		local function task_holder()
+			return #self.tasks > 0
+		end
+		while true do
+			if #self.tasks > 0 then
+				table.remove(self.tasks,1)()
+			else
+				thread.hold(task_holder)
+			end
+		end
+	end).OnError(multi.error)
+	
 	table.insert(processes,c)
 	self:create(c)
 	return c
@@ -1213,7 +1228,7 @@ function multi:getThreads()
 	return threads
 end
 
-function multi:getTasks()
+function multi:getRunners()
 	local tasks = {}
 	for i,v in pairs(self.Mainloop) do
 		if not v.__ignore then
@@ -2503,6 +2518,7 @@ else
 end
 
 threadManager = multi:newProcessor("Global_Thread_Manager", nil, true).Start()
+threadManager.tasks = multi.tasks -- The main multi interface is a bit different.
 
 function multi:getThreadManagerProcess()
 	return threadManager
@@ -2512,18 +2528,4 @@ function multi:getHandler()
 	return threadManager:getHandler()
 end
 
-local function task_holder()
-	return #tasks > 0
-end
-
-multi:newThread("Task Handler", function()
-	while true do
-		if #tasks > 0 then
-			table.remove(tasks)()
-		else
-			thread.hold(task_holder)
-		end
-	end
-end).OnError(multi.error)
-
 return multi

tests/test.lua

@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ multi, thread = require("multi"):init{print=true,warn=true,error=true,debugging=
 -- multi:newTLoop(func, 1)
 
 -- multi:mainloop()
+for i = 1, 100 do
+    multi:newTask(function()
+        print("Task "..i)
+    end)
+end
 
 local conn = multi:newConnection()
 conn(function() print("Test 1") end)
@@ -113,6 +118,8 @@ conn:Fire()
 
 print(#conn)
 
+multi:mainloop()
+
 -- local conn1, conn2, conn3 = multi:newConnection(nil,nil,true), multi:newConnection(), multi:newConnection()
 
 -- local link = conn1(function()