How do I know when a thread quits?

[harold fellermann]

Hi,

> I want a reliable way of knowing when the child
> thread finished execution so that I can make the main thread wait till
> then.
>
> Any ideas?

use a lock. the subthread allocates the lock and releases it after 
processing.
the main thread must wait until the lock is released. otherwiese, use 
the
higher level Threading module which provides a function Thread.join 
that allows
the main thread to wait for the subthread. I think it uses the same 
mechanism
that I explained above.

- harold -

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