getting status of a posix thread

[fragglerock]

hi, I am writing a program in c that requires my main function to ask a posix thread to cancel after a certain timeout.

trouble is, pthread_cancel fails if the thread has already closed.

how would one go about procuring the status of a posix thread, given a pthread_t object?

I've been working on this for days and I've finally narrowed it down to this problem, and google is no help

TIA

[Codeplug]

The best thing to do is to maintain the thread's state yourself.

I suppose you could call pthread_getschedparam() and see if returns ESRCH, but I don't recommend it.

gg