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    Default gracefully exit thread when working with 3rd party lib for which I don't have control

    I am using QThread to do my work where I am calling some function in the 3rd party library (So I don't have any control here to put some flags & quit my thread).
    Is there a way to forcefully kill thread while it is doing some heavy work.

    I have below example to explain my requirement;

    Qt Code:
    1. //My worker class
    2. void worker::myWork()
    3. {
    4. QThread::sleep(10);
    5. }
    6.  
    7.  
    8. //main class
    9. Widget::Widget()
    10. {
    11. // QThread mythread & worker m_worker; are the class members of Widget
    12.  
    13. m_worker.moveToThread(&mythread);
    14. connect(&mythread, SIGNAL(started()), &m_worker, SLOT(myWork()));
    15. mythread.start();
    16.  
    17. killThread();
    18. }
    19.  
    20. void Widget::killThread()
    21. {
    22. QThread::sleep(3);
    23. mythread.terminate();
    24. }
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    In the above code, I am trying to start thread which run for 9 sec & then immediately calling a function which trying to terminate a thread in 3 sec, But the thread is terminating after 9 seconds only not immediately, so my question here is can I kill the thread in 3 sec only.


    I don't want to wait till thread finish as below (which very well may take few minutes in my application).

    if(m_thread.isRunning())
    {
    m_thread.quit();
    m_thread.wait();
    }
    Thanks :-)

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    Default Re: gracefully exit thread when working with 3rd party lib for which I don't have con

    Since thread's cannot be cleanly terminated or rather their resources cannot be cleanly freed when terminated, your best option is to move the uninterruptible 3rd party calculation into a helper program which you then run as a child process.

    Processes can be cleanly "removed" by the operating system.

    Cheers,
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