Hmm that might be true. As Elian and BrowserUK pointed out, it seems like what I proposed was a bad idea. Ok, this is my problem.

My perl program wants to access some data from an external program, B. In order to do so, I need to first run another external program, A, which is required for me to interact with B. A never dies. It continuously runs forever. So it seems like I cannot call:

system(A);
system(B);

otherwise it'll hang on system(A). And it seems like creating 2 separate threads for both A and B and having a successful completion of B kill off A is also not good. Can someone suggest a third alternative to this problem?

Thanks! coldfate

In reply to Re^2: Threads: How to kill a thread manually? by coldfate
in thread Threads: How to kill a thread manually? by coldfate

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