Re: Kill gthreads

[Dimitar Haralanov <mitko tahoenetworks com>]

On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 11:08:45 -0400
Tristan Van Berkom wrote:

   >    if ((thread_id = fork()) == 0) {

        Forking is not exactly threads. In fact, it isn't. Fork will create a
new process...

        However, if g_threads is implemented on top of pthreads (which I think
it is), there should be a function that does that. With pthreads, the
idea is that while the thread that is doing the lookup might be blocked,
the other one(s) are not and can kill the blocked thread.
        In pthreads, one has pthread_kill (tid), or pthread_cancel (tid) which
will do exactly what you want.
        Of course, you could you non-blocking io...

        HTH,

                -- Mitko

P.S. I took a look at the GLib reference and the thread api is rather
poor. You might be better off just using pthreads because they provide
much more control...

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