Re: Kill gthreads

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

        If its really just one library call or at least
one library call _Doesnt_ return.... 
(Not very g)libbish code follows ...)

static int thread_id;

void sigchld_handler(int signum) {
        waitpid(thread_id, &status, NULL);      
}


void main() {
/*...*/

        backup_handler = signal(SIGCHLD, sigchld_handler);

        if ((thread_id = fork()) == 0) {
         /*     call that might not return */
            exit();
        } else if (thread_id > 0) {
                g_timeout_add(/*you get the picture ? 
                                in here you can do 
                                "kill(thread_id, SIGTERM);" */);
        }
}


Of course if it was your code that just wont return
I'm sure you could find something alot more elegant.


        -Tristan

Johan wrote:
> Hello!
> I am developing a filesharing client and want to make
> some dns lookups with the gethostbyname() function.
> I don't want to freeze the application while doing
> this and i belive the best way to resolve the ips
> with gethostbyname is to create a thread by using the
> g_thread-library.
>
> My problem is that I want to kill the thread if the
> dns lookup takes to long time or the user cancels
> the connection attempt, and I cant find a way
> to do this.
>
> Is it impossible to kill the g-thread? If it is, do
> anyone have a better way to solve the dns lookup?
>
> Thanks
> Johan Nilsson
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