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How to kill a thread that times out

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Hi everybody ,

I am trying to implement a test director that will test a program. I also need to timeout if the program takes too long to output the answer.
So i am using a thread to keep testing the program ( sequentially , I.e. 1 test at a time ) I am unsure how to find out if the thread is taking too long with timeout value ( in seconds )
then I want to kill that thread ? how do I do that ?

here is my code
int success;
success = pthread_create( &thread1, NULL, runSlider, (Void *) filename) ;

void * runSlider(void * filename)
{
char s[100]= "./slide <";
strcat (s, (char *)filename);
system(s);
pthread_exit(NU LL);

}

so I if this thread takes longer than a specified timeout I want to kill it . How do I do that ? I want to keep my main program somehow running the counter for the timeout and the thread to execute the system command.
Any ideas will be very appreciated

Thank you
Nov 25 '06 #1
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knightowl
4 New Member
oh forogot to mention , running on linux and c++ using g++ compiler

Thank you very much
Nov 25 '06 #2
knightowl
4 New Member
Anybody ? please?
Nov 26 '06 #3

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