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Subject: Advice on abort
Date: 4 Nov 2005 07:25:34 -0800
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What are the best options when a task needs to be terminated, but
signaling the task may not be possible?  We have tasks that sometimes
need to be terminated, but may potentially be blocked on a resource,
such as a socket.  Currently we use OS-specific calls to terminate the
task, but I've never liked that.  I've been thinking of using the abort
statement, but I don't think that's very graceful either.  I also would
rather not complicate the code (or force polling behavior) by making
the sockets non-blocking.  Any advice?