killing thread ?

[Paul Rubin]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:
>     Paul> Pick one of the unused ones from the above (probably from the
>     Paul> 33-61 range).
> 
> My MacOSX system only goes up as high as 31 (SIGUSR2).  Is calling kill(47)
> going to be defined?

On the Mac, you'd use SIGUSR2.  I don't see what's so hard to
understand about this.  Threads are an OS-specific feature to begin
with.  You have to expect the internal interface to them to also
not necessarily be the same for every OS.