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Re: kernel threads

On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 08:04 AM, Michael George wrote:
Looking at the Kernel Programming docs on the ADC site, I've found a page on Creating and Destroying Threads. There it is documented how one can create a thread with the IOThread call: IOCreateThread(), and then kill it with the mach thread calls: thread_terminate(getact_thread( thread_t/IOThread ) ).

Obviously, we need to fix that document on the "killing" side of things. You really shouldn't asynchronously kill threads - especially kernel threads. You should arrange to have the thread kill itself. The easiest way to do this is to have it return from its initial function. If this isn't convenient for you, you can have the thread call IOExitThread() explicitly (after assuring that all the resources it allocated, and is still responsible for, have been freed).

--Jim
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