Richard, Matthias, no need to speculate. Just search for cancel in the gthread bugs. Redirect comments to the mailing-list posts mentioned in the bugzilla. Easy.
(I did ask that question a number of years ago for Totem)
(Matthias, I sent a mail to Richard months ago telling him his blog sucks for not allowing anonymous comments)
Well, actually I hesitated before answering Richard via Planet GNOME, and I considered mailing him. Finally urge combined with lazzyness (to figure out his e-mail address) won.
ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteYou should rather consider do yourself a clean cancel of the thread pthread_cancel() has a difficult semantic to implement and pthread_kill() will not be a clean solution.
Resource allocated during the thread have to be cleaned up properly.
You'd rather do the following (with proper locks) :
thread_run()
{
while (has_some_work_to_do) {
if (cancelled)
return;
do things;
}
}
thread_cancel()
{
cancelled = true;
}
Viêt Hoà, you already pasted that in Mathias' blog...
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