How to kill a thread from another thread ?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On 9 Nov 2000, Aahz Maruch wrote:
> You don't.  You need to set up each of your threads so that they look
> for some kind of signal to kill themselves (which means returning).  It
> has been argued that the ability to kill threads is necessary for server
> applications, but I haven't seen any powerful arguments in favor of that.

   How does a thread would kill itself if it hangs in some syscall
(socket.read(), e.g.)?

Oleg.
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