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Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Fri Dec 22 01:31:00 EST 2000 
In article <91m3vv$hfg$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <kataru1 at my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>In my application, I spawn a thread and give it some work. Here, I need
>to be notified if that thread does not finish the assigned task in
>certain time limit. Could anyone suggest me what would be the best
>way to do it, if any?

You'd probably need a second thread to act as a timer.  The problem is
that you need a way to notify the first thread to stop working, and that
can only happen if the first thread is processing work in small enough
chunks that it is easily interruptable.
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