[Tutor] How to deal with a thread that doesn't terminate

[bob gailer]

Tony Cappellini wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2008 2:02 PM, bob gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Tony Cappellini wrote:
>>     
>>> When I executing a program external to the main program in a thread,
>>> and that thread hangs, can the thread be terminated?
>>>
>>>       
>> Please define "hangs".
>>     
>
>   
>> AFAIK that could mean waiting on an external event / signal /
>> communication that never happens, or running in an "infinite loop". So
>> which is it or is it something else?
>>     
>
> Never happens.
>   

Sorry. I don't understand that, so I can't help. Perhaps someone else can.


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