Re: How do I stop a thread

Sorry about the late reply.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Sabyasachi Ruj <[email protected]> wrote:
> How should I interrupt and stop a thread.
> I am not able to do with PR_interrupt();
>
> Details: -
> I have a thread, which will connect to a MySQL proxy server.
>
> There is a bug in MySQL proxy: -
> http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=41417
> In short, if the MySQL server is stopped, the mysql_real_connect hangs.
>
> Due to this bug, my thread goes to state where it never comes out of
> mysql_real_connect.
>
> Now, the PR_interrupt is also not able to interrupt that thread.

Yes.  PR_Interrupt can only interrupt NSPR functions, such as
PR_WaitCondVar and PR_Connect.  It can't interrupt
mysql_real_connect.

> Somehow I need to stop that thread.
> How should I do it?

I don't know how to interrupt mysql_real_connect.  Is there
a mysql function to do that?  If not, you can try pthread_cancel
on Unix/Linux/Mac OS X.

Wan-Teh