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Operating Systems Solaris Killing a thread having a listener socket Post 302413368 by manustone on Thursday 15th of April 2010 11:29:00 AM
Old 04-15-2010
Unfortunately I don't have a lot of exposure yet to pthreads.

I was looking for a a way to kill a thead in the fastest and no blocking way since I cannot call any blocking function to exit my.... so I was finding some KILL function able to kill a thread without having too much impact on the OS i.e. I am scared about having some socket left open /pending or some other kind of possible leakage caused by a BRUTAL killing of a thread...
 

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