RL> The emx docs preach passionately against the use of 
 RL> DosKillThread(), but don't say what's wrong with it.

The problem is that a thread can only be killed when it is exiting a kernel
function;  so if a thread is blocked in a function (DosRead, for example), 
it will not be killed.

They may have fixed this for Warp.


IN ANY CASE --- DosKillThread() is _RUDE_.  I've never used and and don't
anticipate ever having to use it (it's in the "goto" bucket).

A thread should be asked to die,  and it should kill itself.

The OS/2 1.x API didn't even have a DosKillThead() --- not because they
didn't know how, but because they didn't want one;  unfortunately the 2.0
developer's caved in.

Other functions that, IMO,  are bad (and NOT required):

    DosSuspendThread()

    DosEnterCritSec()   (There used to be a performance trick (over a
                         semaphore) with this function,  but it is no
                         longer valid now that SMP os/2 exists).


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