Re: Best Practice For Killing Thread?

[email protected] (Mike Pomraning) Mon, 3 Nov 2003 16:41:38 -0600 (CST)

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On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:

> At 14:26 -0600 11/3/03, Mike Pomraning wrote:
> >detached threads, there isn't really a way to figure out if the thread has
> >been internally reclaimed.
>
> Thread::Running ?   ;-)

Right.  :-)  Strictly speaking, there's still a gap between when
Thread::Running (via Thread::Exit's clever enclosure) reports a thread entry
sub to be completed and when the interpreter internally finishes the thread
(either explicitly by a user's join() or implicitly on a detached thread).

But that gap isn't very interesting or relevant.  The most bulletproof way to
know when a thread has finished is to do some bookkeeping and make sure that
program logic keeps the books correctly, and Thread::Running does this for
you.

-Mike
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