[Mono-list] solution for Thread::Abort()

[Piers Haken]

I wonder, what happense if you freeze a thread while it's in the middle
of a GC? Can someone summarize how the boehm GC handles multi-threaded
applications, and how it handles native calls?

Piers.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dietmar Maurer [mailto:dietmar@ximian.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:43 PM
> To: Jaroslaw Kowalski
> Cc: Dick Porter; Mono List
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] solution for Thread::Abort()
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 21:34, Jaroslaw Kowalski wrote: 
> > 
> > 2 stupid questions:
> > 
> > 1. Can't you just do pthread_kill(thread, SIGSTOP) to suspend the 
> > thread and pthread_kill(thread, SIGCONT) to resume?
> 
> Unfortunately this will Stop all threads in a process 
> (according to my pthread book). Linux uses one process per 
> thread so it is possible that this works on Linux, but it 
> will not be portable. 
> 
> - Dietmar 
> 
> 
> 
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