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Asked: 2026-06-14T00:42:16+00:00

I have a QThread that fetches data from the web. Sometimes the user asks

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I have a QThread that fetches data from the web. Sometimes the user asks for something else, and the data needs to be fetched changes as well.

In my current configuration, I call terminate() upon the thread, change the input data, and call start() on the thread again. Now, that works fine, but sometimes I get the main eventloop stuck when calling isRunning() or isFinished() upon a terminated thread. It gets stuck forever, and does not recover until I kill the process.

  1. Why would isRunning() or isFinished() hung in the first place? They don’t suppose to block.
  2. Is this workflow acceptable? If not, how can I stop a thread’s process when I don’t need it no more (or how can I abandon it)?
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  1. Editorial Team

    It seems that in some cases, the thread becomes unusable after termination, and isRunning() and isFinished() may hang the calling thread, even if called only after the TERMINATED signal.

    My workaround was to terminate a thread, forget about it and start a new one.

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