Re: Terminate a Thread
Jason Cavett wrote:
I am having a heck of a time terminating a running thread.
The class (Process) implements Runnable. When I hit cancel (in the
GUI - the GUI and process are running in separate threads), a method
in Process (cancel()) is called. Cancel sets status and does some
things so that the GUI is updated with the proper information. But,
the run() method still continues until completion.
What you describe here sounds suspiciously like "cooperative
multitasking." Basically, it doesn't work. Preempting a running
process on a CPU, when that process isn't being cooperative (i.e., not
checking it's flag) has been tried and is just a rickety pile of bricks.
There are a number
of steps in the run method (10 in this case), but if I cancel, I want
it to stop immediately, so checking for a "cancel" flag before each
method call would not accomplish what I'm trying to achieve. Also, I
Any reason why you can't use Threads? Of course, calling Thread stop()
could leave your application in an unworkable state. If all you are
doing is tear-down (the app is shutting down anyway), that may be ok.
Otherwise, my only idea is to use some native methods to make kernel
calls -- that's the only guy who can stop a run-away process.
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