Watchdog thread

[Jeremy Fowler]

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pthread/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565921151/qid=1039732621/sr=8-1/r
ef=sr_8_1/002-7191629-6787240?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of jim
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:09 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Watchdog thread
>
>
> Jeremy,
>
> I'd like to know what that book is.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> On Thursday 12 December 2002 09:56 pm, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> >
> > Watchdog threads are very common for multithreaded applications. I don't
> > think it's possible for one process to access another processes' threads.
> > You can control processes, but not threads. Kernel threads are different
> > and so it may be possible to modify/control those. I'll have to do more
> > research into POSIX threads to be sure though. I have O'Reilly book on this
> > very subject - however, it's at home and so I can't reference it right now.
> >
> > > Just an honest question.
> >
> > Is there such a thing as a dishonest question?
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