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process_queue_item()
private
processes one item on the queue. Returns true if there was an item to
process, false if there was no item
# File lib/rake/thread_pool.rb, line 96
def process_queue_item #:nodoc:
return false if @queue.empty?
# Even though we just asked if the queue was empty, it
# still could have had an item which by this statement
# is now gone. For this reason we pass true to Queue#deq
# because we will sleep indefinitely if it is empty.
promise = @queue.deq(true)
stat :dequeued, :item_id => promise.object_id
promise.work
return true
rescue ThreadError # this means the queue is empty
false
end
