Re: Kill gthreads

[Johan <jo_ni telia com>]

Thanks for your answer, but I cant use a fork() method
since I have to be able to port the client to windows.

Is there a way to find out what pid a g_thread have
and send a killsignal?

/Johan

Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com> wrote:

>       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