Question

On linux, we have pthread_kill() to do this. I’m trying to find a Windows counterpart for it.

In other words, given a thread id, is there a way to decide whether the thread is still running or not?

GetExitCodeThread() is the closest I’ve found, however, it needs thread handle rather than thread id as its parameter.

Answer 1

You should not use a thread id for this purpose: thread ids can be reused, so if you get a thread id, then that thread exits, another thread can be started with that same thread id.

The handle does not have this problem: once a thread terminates, all handles to that thread will reflect the terminated state of the thread.

You can obtain a handle for a thread with a given id using OpenThread; you can then pass that handle to GetExitCodeThread to determine whether the thread has exited.