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by Eric Lippert via Fabulous Adventures In Coding on 2/22/2010 2:41:00 PM
The other day, six years ago, I was was talking a bit about how to decide whether to keep waiting for a bus, or to give up and walk. It led to a quite interesting discussion on the old JoS forum. But what if the choice isn’t “wait for a bit then give up”, instead it is “wait for a bit, and then take an axe to the thread”? A pattern I occasionally see is something like I’ve got a worker thread that I started up, I ask it to shut down, and then I wait for it to do so. If it doesn’t shut down soo
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