Hello mojo2405! Thank you for posting the additional details.

Now the signal (CTRL+C) comes from the user / CLI , then it catched by the father (going to ctrl_c_handler function) , and then ctrl_c_handler function suppose to send the USR1 signal to the threads - but the thread doesn't catch it. In addition - in the child (testProcess), before starting the thread , I have another USR1 handler , which caught - only after the thread is ending.

The approach you're taking certainly will not work, because I don't see any evidence in your child process code that you are catching SIGUSR1 in the main thread and re-sending it to all of your threads one by one, as covered in threads:

Catching signals

Signals are caught by the main thread (thread ID = 0) of a script. Therefore, setting up signal handlers in threads for purposes other than THREAD SIGNALLING as documented above will not accomplish what is intended.

This is especially true if trying to catch SIGALRM in a thread. To handle alarms in threads, set up a signal handler in the main thread, and then use THREAD SIGNALLING to relay the signal to the thread:

mojo2405 wrote:
I think your solution is not suitable here..

Oh? Why is that? The one bit of code you have not shown or described is the code that actually runs in your thread (i.e., functions_name()). And, from what you've posted, your child process starts a single thread, waits for that thread to finish, and exits. Why do you even need threads at all? And why can't your threads exit based on polling a shutdown flag instead of a (fake) signal (which, by the way, is implemented via a glorified polling mechanism itself!)

please help :)

Believe me, I'm trying. :-)

In reply to Re^3: killing threads inside forks by rjt
in thread killing threads inside forks by mojo2405

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