Hello On 10/24/14 07:30, Jean-Philippe André wrote:
> Hi > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Viacheslav Reutskiy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone. >> >> I have one little question about Ecore Thread. >> I need to stop the running thread and get >> notified, I mean call callback, about it event. >> >> Ecore Thread has the function ecore_thread_close(), >> but if this func not stopped the thread, Ecore >> Thread waits until thread is finished, and then call >> the cancel callback. >> >> How I can stop or kill the thread? And if this >> functionality is not available, any plans to add >> it? >> >> > The thread will have to stop itself. > So you need to send an event to request the thread stop. > > You can't just kill a thread like that. There are some mechanims like > pthread_cancel but they need to take some extreme precautions (properly > free all resources, etc...). So I wouldn't add this to EFL. > > With ecore, you might want to use ecore_thread_cancel and then in the > thread's loop, check for cancellation with ecore_thread_check. This is not > the same as pthread_cancel. It's much easier to use. Yes, Ecore thread easy to use, but ecore still pending thread execution and then call cancel callback. It's behavior not enough for me. If ecore call cancel callback immediately after ecore_thread_cancel(), it be great, but ecore wait, wait, wait... > > I don't know of any way to safely kill a thread that would be stuck in an > infinite loop. (maybe someone else knows?) > > Best regards, > Thank you -- Best Regards Viacheslav Reutskyi (rimmed) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
