On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 22:46 +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > I don't have any man pages (in english) for pthread_kill, which is > briefly mentionned in libc-doc. Bizarrely, manpges-fr from > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/manpages-fr seems to contain a > french translation of such a man page.
Take a look at the tkill man page. Its not portable but it will probably do what you want. I've never used it though. In my experience if you can find a way to avoid signals you win, especially in a library because signal IDs are a limited and their namespace is shared throughout the task. Ian
