How to force a thread to stop

[Paul Rubin]

"Carl J. Van Arsdall" <cvanarsdall at mvista.com> writes:
> The problem I have is a large distributed system, that's the reality
> of it.  The short summary, I need to use and control 100+ machines in
> a computing farm.  They all need to share memory or to actively
> communicate with each other via some other mechanism.  Without giving
> any other details, that's the problem I have to solve.

Have you looked at POSH yet?   http://poshmodule.sf.net

There's also an shm module that's older and maybe more reliable.
Or you might be able to just use mmap.