How to force a thread to stop

[Carl J. Van Arsdall]

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> On 2006-07-26 19:08:44, Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:
>
>   
>> Also, threading's condition and event constructs are used a lot 
>> (i talk about it somewhere in that thing I wrote).  They are easy to use 
>> and nice and ready for me, with a server wouldn't I have to have things 
>> poll/wait for messages?
>>     
>
> How would a thread receive a message, unless it polls some kind of queue or
> waits for a message from a queue or at a semaphore? You can't just "push" a
> message into a thread; the thread has to "pick it up", one way or another. 
>
> Gerhard
>
>   
Well, I guess I'm thinking of an event driven mechanism, kinda like 
setting up signal handlers.  I don't necessarily know how it works under 
the hood, but I don't poll for a signal.  I setup a handler, when the 
signal comes, if it comes, the handler gets thrown into action.  That's 
what I'd be interesting in doing with threads.

-c



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