CreateThread Question

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Original post by b1gjo3 If my thread function runs on an infinite loop, if i use CloseHandle on that thread, will it terminate the loop? thanks

I don't know the answer, but in general you really don't want to kill a thread like that. It would have no chance to clean up after itself.

Instead, set a shared flag that the looping thread looks at periodically.

I assume not. It would only get rid of the handle to the thread not the thread you will need to call KillThread first or return from the thread function to stop the thread.

Why ask, or assume, when the answer is just 10 seconds away using a search engine? Clicky. Took me longer to type that than to find the actual answer.

No, closing a handle to a thread will not terminate the thread. And terminating threads like that is a really realy really bad idea anyway. You should instead signal the thread to cleanly exit on it's own.

You probably don't want to use CreateThread anyway, you would probably want to use beginthread or beginthreadex, if you are to call CRT functions from within the thread.