End Thread assistance

[Crazed]

Hi, my question is in reference to ending threads from within a main function, (C extended function) _endthread is easy but can only be ran from within a runing thread, so if there are any known functions you might know, don't be shy to share:P, and there would be the possibility of using a global variable that the thread could check and terminate, but for the hell of knowing a function or two more, I had to ask.

Thanks guys

[vart]

always better to signal to the thread that it has to exit in some way, using global var, using pointer to the var passed as a parame or using SetEvent

If all this is unavailable - you can forcibly terminateThread but this has several drawbaks like unrelease CriticalSection and not-freed memory...

[Elysia]

On Windows, it will also leak the stack, so it's a very bad function.