I would like to stop a thread in mid execution. From reading around, I am of the thought I will have to check a local variable to determine if the thread should continue or clean up and exit run(). Any ideas of cleanly implementing this?
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I would like to stop a thread in mid execution. From reading around, I am of the thought I will have to check a local variable to determine if the thread should continue or clean up and exit run(). Any ideas of cleanly implementing this?
Often a way to do this is create a boolean volatile member variable, perhaps called “stopThread”. The thread periodically polls this variable to see if it should terminate.