Killing threads

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Daniel!

On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:03:34 -0400
Daniel Franke <dfoxfranke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hal's question was about *killing* threads. Even if a thread only 3
> ever makes thread-safe calls, it's still unsafe to kill, because
> doing so can leave its mutexes locked and the data they control in an
> inconsistent state.

There is more than one way to 'kill' a thread.  The nice way is to 
'kill -HUP', which politely tells the thread to commit seppuku in the
cleanest way the thread knows how.

RGDS
GARY
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