Option to empty the queue?

Hi and thanks for this awesome library.

I was wonder if I can empty this._queue somehow. In my app I manage a queue of actions, but sometimes I just want to empty it all out when a drastic event happens (and the old queue is not relevant anymore).

Thanks!

[DirtyHairy]

I have released version 0.3.0 on NPM. This now includes a cancel() method on mutexes and semaphores that will reject all pending locks. The currently held lock is not affected, though, so the mutex will still be locked until the current lock is released.

[DirtyHairy]

So the perfect solution for me is to kill the task that currently owns the lock, too. I was thinking about throwing an exception in this case.

But that’s not possible. Once a “task” has acquired the mutex, there’s no way to stop it — what we just called a “task” is really just a sequence of async execution steps that are scheduled on the event loop (and that hopefully do release the mutex eventually). There is no further interaction with the mutex before it is released in which we could throw.

I think the only thing possible is to reject the promises for all pending locks, and to wait until the current holder of the mutex releases it.