Subj : Re: Killing threads
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Ian
Date : Wed Aug 17 2005 12:32 pm

Srini Palthepu wrote:
>>Why not add the logic to the threads to detect a timed out condition and clean 
>>up after themselves?
>>
> 
> 
> How do a thread that is blocked doing the work
> detect timeout? In my case, the main thread gets a
> reset request from client upon timeout.
> May be I can send an interrup signal instead of
> SIGKILL to the thread.
> 
Block on something that has a timeout associated with it, for example if 
you are forking, use a pipe to communicate with the child and use poll 
or select with a timeout to wait for data.

Ian

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