Daniel Franke <dfoxfranke at gmail.com>: > 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. Oh, you're right. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>