Terminate long running thread in thread pool that was created using QueueUserWorkItem(win 32/nt5).
- by Jake
I am programming in a win32 nt5 environment.
I have a function that is going to be called many times. Each call is atomic. I would like to use QueueUserWorkItem to take advantage of multicore processors.
The problem I am having is I only want to give the function 3 seconds to complete. If it has not completed in 3 seconds I want to terminate the thread.
Currently I am doing something like this:
HANDLE newThreadFuncCall= CreateThread(NULL,0,funcCall,&func_params,0,NULL);
DWORD result = WaitForSingleObject(newThreadFuncCall, 3000);
if(result == WAIT_TIMEOUT)
{
TerminateThread(newThreadFuncCall,WAIT_TIMEOUT);
}
I just spawn a single thread and wait for 3 seconds or it to complete. Is there anyway to do something similar to but using QueueUserWorkItem to queue up the work?
Thanks!
