thread problem

[Bart Vandewoestyne <Bart VandewoestyneNOSPAM pandora be>]

The problem is simple:

I have a START and a STOP button in my gtk application.  The start
button has a callback in which a g_thread is being started.  Within that
thread, I'm continuously downloading a stream until the user decides to
stop by pressing the 'STOP' button.

Now the problem is that i don't know how to interrupt the continously
downloading thread by pressing the stop button.

Obviously, the callback of STOP has to do something, but i don't know
what.  Is there some way that i can make the stop button stop the other
thread that is running (somehow the same as you would end the
application by pressing Ctrl-C) ?

Full source code with Makefile is under the src/ directory in
mc303.ulyssis.org/downloads/mms_gui.tar.gz for those who want to
investigate.  grep for the 'go_clicked' callback to understand what I'm
talking about.

Greetzzz,
Bart

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