How to kill a thread?

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Sandhya.Kishan

  • Jun 19th, 2012
 

The Thread.stop() method can be used to kill a thread but it is unsafe and thus deprecated.
Other way would be to have a variable indicating if the thread should be stopped. Other threads may set the variable to make the thread stop. Then, the thread itself may clean up and stop.

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