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From: wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Killing threads
Message-ID: <2864@sapwdf.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 91 08:37:56 GMT
References: <1991Jun8.234338.8440@fwi.uva.nl> <1991Jun9.022029.22896@netcom.COM>
Reply-To: Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de>
Organization: SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany
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  to suspend and resume threads, see, oddly enough, DosSuspendThread and
  DosResumeThread.

feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) writes:
>Absolutely not! No! No! No! Killing threads is against OS/2 rules!

  not having a way to do it and being against the rules are two
  different things.  we hack it by having all of our threads check a
  global variable often.  when this variable is set, they exit.

  osf1 (not os/2) woke up and will provide an api call to kill threads.
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						--bw
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Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de> <sapwdf!wohler>
Heidelberg Red Barons Ultimate Frisbee Team