How to kill a user thread in Linux.... Help me

Hi all,
I want to kill a thread spawned by main thread from main thread.
Before the complition of the spawned thread.
I want to know how can i accomplish this task.... ? If any one know plz hepl me...

With Regard
Rajesh.

Uh...
What thread library are you using? What programming language? Maybe some example code of what you are trying to do?

Groetjes,

Kees-Jan

thread or process?

If you are using POSIX threads: keep the pthread_t which is is returned by pthread_create (that is, the thread handle). To kill the thread, use pthread_kill with said pthread_t passed as argument.


HTH

Thanks all to respond my query. Actully i m using POSIX thread in C and Linux. I got the solution by doing some thing here and there. The answer is :
To terminate a user thread prematurely use the API "pthread_cancel" from the thread which want to kill the target thread.

For the furthre details about pthread library follw the following link :
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hanks all.