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>From: "John Harger" <john_h@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Jason Wilkins" <fenix@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 15:55:22 -0700
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>Subject: Re: [AD] exiting
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On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:07:49 -0500 (CDT), Jason Wilkins wrote:
>Problem:
>
>exit() in BeOS only seems to work from the main thread. If I call it from
>another thread, it just ends the thread. I'm no even sure if it works
>from the main thread. This bug manefested itself when I put exit(0) in
>the keyboard driver to kill the program on command-option-end (ctl-alt-end
>on PC keyboards) The keyboard driver would stop, but the program kept
>running.
I've never coded for BeOS before, but that would make sense to me. That trying to "exit" in a sub-thread would kill only
that thread, and the only way to kill the entire program would be to kill the main thread. Since doesn't a thread really run
as if it's a seperate program?
John Harger
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