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

I'm fairly new at OS/2 programming (I.E. I've gotten GCC to work, but make
files elude me and always say something like "request to compile
header files ignored" and then dies on the linker phase.)

The only example of doskillthread I've seen is a multi-threaded com app
that uses a blocking read from the com port to put bytes into a buffer the
user can manipulate.  The only way to get it to go away when you exit is
doskillthread. What would you suggest?

>     DosSuspendThread()

Never used this one.  I take it you should ask a thread to suspend itself?

>     DosEnterCritSec()   (There used to be a performance trick (over a

I understand why that's bad.  SMP will probably be the desktop standard in
about three years.  (My estimate, anyway.  When the pentium starts to die,
it or the clone makers will fight off the 686 with multi-cpu motherboards,
and they'll get really cheap.)

Rob
 
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