Is it possible to stop a specific application thread?

[Keith Chapman]

Hi,

I'm playing around with some research ideas on hotspot.

One of my runtime services of the VM needs to stop a specific application
thread (I have a handle to the pthread of the application thread). How can
the VM stop such a thread? Is there any mechanism in place to do this?

Thanks,
Keith.

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Keith Chapman
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