Re: How to kill a thread?

FROM : Chris Kane
DATE : Tue Jan 21 20:29:37 2003

On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 1:50PM, Mark Levin wrote:
>> And pthreads can be used safely in Obj-C apps.

>
> ...aside from the warning in the documentation that the cocoa
> libraries will not become thread-safe unless you use NSThreads?


The previous poster's statement about pthreads and ObjC is literally
true -- pthreads can be used safely within ObjC programs.  You
shouldn't attempt to use ObjC (or Cocoa functions) within such threads,
without further precautions, but if you just want a thread to execute
some C code, you don't need to take ObjC and Cocoa multithreaded.  The
threads that Foundation itself creates to do some types of operations
asynchronously are generally carefully written in C only so that
Foundation doesn't in fact make the app ObjC-threadsafe (with the
slight performance penalty that incurs).

Chris Kane
Cocoa Frameworks, Apple
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