Re: Advice on abort

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 4 Nov 2005 07:25:34 -0800, REH wrote:

> 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?

Close that socket from another task. That should end the blocking I/O on
the socket with some error code. And the task will become ready accept a
rendezvous. 

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