Re: Help: looking for equivalent syscall to shutdown() but for unix pipes

[Alexandre Bique <bique dot alexandre at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 8:39 PM Dmitry Goncharov
<dgoncharov@users.sf.net> wrote:
> int pipeFd;
> run = 1;
>
> void consumerThread()
> {
>   while (run)
>   {
>     ret = read(pipeFd, ...);
>
>     // do something with ret and the data
>   }
> }
>
> void stopConsumer()
> {
>   run = 0;
>   pthread_kill(tid, ...); // interrupt read.
>   join(...);
> }

That's quite a strong assumption that pthread_kill() would do the job.
When the data is being processed, you don't know which syscall might
be interrupted, who's going to catch the signal, how the resources are
going to be released and so on...
pthread_cancel() would not do the job either.

Regards,
-- 
Alexandre Bique