30 Mar
2004
30 Mar
'04
6:43 a.m.
On tis, 2004-03-30 at 08:51, Arve Knudsen wrote:
Hi
Could anyone explain how I should go about killing a potensially
unresponsive thread? Of course there's pthread_cancel, but I don't wish to
wait for the other thread to reach a cancel point. Basically I'm trying to
implement a watchdog for a realtime audio thread. Any suggestions are
welcome, thanks.
man pthread_cancel:
...
...
pthread_setcanceltype changes the type of responses to cancellation
requests for the calling thread: asynchronous (immediate) or deferred.
The type argument is the new cancellation type: either
PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS
to cancel the calling thread as soon as the cancellation request is
received, or
PTHREAD_CANCEL_DEFERRED
to keep the cancellation request pending until the next cancellation
point.
/jens