Yo Daniel! On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:03:34 -0400 Daniel Franke <[email protected]> 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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