How to force a thread to stop

[Paul Rubin]

"Carl J. Van Arsdall" <cvanarsdall at mvista.com> writes:
> I'd be all for using processes but setting up communication between
> processes would be difficult wouldn't it?  I mean, threads have
> shared memory so making sure all threads know the current system
> state is an easy thing.  With processes wouldn't I have to setup
> some type of server/client design, where one process has the system
> state and then the other processes constantly probe the host when
> they need the current system state? --

http://poshmodule.sf.net might be of interest.