Terminating Multiple Running Threads?

I have a basic web server that accepts an incoming connection and starts a separate QThread to handle the request -

Code:

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void Server::incomingConnection(int socketDescriptor)
{
    thread = new ServerThread(socketDescriptor, this);
    connect(thread, SIGNAL(finished()), thread, SLOT(deleteLater()));
    thread->start();
}

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If, for example, I have ten download threads running at the same time and I want to stop them all - immediately - what method should I use to terminate all the threads?

You can use QThread::terminate() but it isn't pretty.

Someone with more practical experience will probably explain why you don't need threads to handle multiple requests and why this is a non-problem.

Thanks for the reply.

Think I have a solution ... I store a copy of each new ServerThread pointer in a STL vector then loop through the vector array setting each thread's boolean control variable to "stopped=true" at shutdown. Seems to work. :p