Re: is it possible to 'kill' a thread?

["B.Hakvoort" <bart hakvoort be>]

Dear Chris, Ed and Paul,

Thanks very much for the informative replies. I'm off to do some reading
and experimenting on 'advanced' threading ;)

cheers,

plors

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 17:00 +0100, B.Hakvoort wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if it's possible to end a thread from OUTSIDE that
> thread. I have a thread which executes an un-interruptable function and
> i'd like to end that execution whenever a user presses the 'cancel'
> button.
> 
> I did some searching and found Glib::Thread::Exit, but i'm not sure how
> it can be usefull in this situation.
> 
> Any insights in how to accomplish this the 'right' way?
> 
> thnks!
> 
> plors
> 
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