On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, at 02:53 PM, Heiko Panther wrote: I'm using an IOKit thread in my kext. The thread usually blocks in a system call.

From my main workloop, I want to terminate the thread on certain conditions. There is an explanation on how to do so in IMX:Kernel Programming.

thread_terminate(getact_thread(thread_t thread)); Only problem: I can't seem to find the function getact_thread(). Any clues? How do I get rid of the thread? I'm confused. If it is an IOKit thread created by a KEXT, it can't be blocked in a system call. Regardless of that little confusion, it is always best to let the thread terminate itself. Simply wake it up from that block such that it notices it should kill itself. Then just have it call thread_terminate(current_act()). If it truly is a kernel thread, it will not return from this call. However, if it really is user-level thread, the thread will only be marked for termination, and will not terminate until it unwinds out of its current system call. It will stop just short of returning to user-space and then will finish the job of terminating itself. --Jim _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.