From 163ffb4f546eaf30fb8c88b5491263b381dbacb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: coderstephen <me@stephencoakley.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 22:39:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add spawn shortcut for threads

---
 src/Threading/ThreadContext.php | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Threading/ThreadContext.php b/src/Threading/ThreadContext.php
index caf8d8c..ff938d2 100644
--- a/src/Threading/ThreadContext.php
+++ b/src/Threading/ThreadContext.php
@@ -28,6 +28,20 @@ class ThreadContext implements ContextInterface
      */
     private $channel;
 
+    /**
+     * Spawns a new thread and runs it.
+     *
+     * @param callable $function A callable to invoke in the thread.
+     *
+     * @return ThreadContext The thread object that was spawned.
+     */
+    public static function spawn(callable $function /* , ...$args */)
+    {
+        $thread = new static($function);
+        $thread->start();
+        return $thread;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Creates a new thread context from a thread.
      *