From: Bill Atkins <batkins57@...>
Date: 2005-02-07T12:52:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Stopping a thread

Brilliant!  Thanks!

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:50:09 +0900, Assaph Mehr <assaph@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Bill Atkins wrote:
> > Say I have a thread in variable @thread.  Is it possible to stop that
> > thread from the main thread?  I am aware of Thread.stop, but I don't
> > want to stop the current thread, just the thread represented in
> > @thread.
> 
> Look at Thread#kill. e.g.:
> 
> @thread = Thread.new {
>   while true
>     puts 'still going'
>     sleep 2
>   end
> }
> 
> sleep 7
> @thread.kill
> puts 'done'
> 
> 


-- 
$stdout.sync = true
"Just another Ruby hacker.".each_byte do |b|
  ('a'..'z').step do|c|print c+"\b";sleep 0.007 end;print b.chr
end; print "\n"