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From: feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Killing threads
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.003757.24023@netcom.COM>
Date: 12 Jun 91 00:37:57 GMT
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>>Can you also kill a thread explicitely, like with processes?

>Not currently, much to most everyone's chagrin.  It seems very likely, though,
>that, at some point before gerneral availability of 2.0, the IBM kernel
>group will make it possible for one thread to raise an exception in another
>thread.  Then you will be able to kill off threads in a fairly orderly way.
>	-scott e. garfinkle

How will the threads be killed? Will there be a new system call, or
what?
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