Simple example of threading

[Dirk Vleugels]

Hi,

rmeegan at murlmail.com writes:
> [Thomas Weholt]
> There is something to be said for spawning new processes to handle 
> server requests. In particular, parent processes can kill their 
> children when they wander off and start misbehaving. Threads can't be 
> killed by other threads, including the main thread of the process that 
> spawned them.

Is this true? Under posix_threads there is pthread_cancel. This call
is used to 'cancel' misbehaving threads (blocking on certain system
calls (see doc)). The thread may ignore cancel requests, but this is
under user control. 

Sadly, pthread_cancel is missing in python, dunno why.

> Good luck -
> - Robert

Cheers,
Dirk

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