Subj : Re: Killing threads
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joe Seigh
Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 08:10 pm

Srini Palthepu wrote:
>>Why are you trying to kill threads?  Is cancellation not what you want?
>>If not, you need to roll your own signalling mechanism.
>>Without knowing much more about your application structure, I can't
>>offer better suggestions except to say that it's a thoroughly solved
>>problem.
> 
> 
> My application has a set of daemon threads for doing the work
> that are alocated for each client request. But when a thread hangs in
> the proces of serving a client for any reason, I need to cleanup.
> I am trying to kill the hung thread and respawn a new one as a way
> of cleaning up.
> 
> I am using ACE toolkit thread framework that essentially
> will be translated to Solaris thread sys calls at lowlevel.
> 
pthread_cancel and non-blocking stuff where it's not cancelable
by the former.


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Joe Seigh

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