Mega Code Archive
Suspending, resuming, and stopping a thread
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/*
C#: The Complete Reference
by Herbert Schildt
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill (March 8, 2002)
ISBN: 0072134852
*/
// Suspending, resuming, and stopping a thread.
using System;
using System.Threading;
class MyThread {
public Thread thrd;
public MyThread(string name) {
thrd = new Thread(new ThreadStart(this.run));
thrd.Name = name;
thrd.Start();
}
// This is the entry point for thread.
void run() {
Console.WriteLine(thrd.Name + " starting.");
for(int i = 1; i <= 1000; i++) {
Console.Write(i + " ");
if((i%10)==0) {
Console.WriteLine();
Thread.Sleep(250);
}
}
Console.WriteLine(thrd.Name + " exiting.");
}
}
public class SuspendResumeStop {
public static void Main() {
MyThread mt1 = new MyThread("My Thread");
Thread.Sleep(1000); // let child thread start executing
mt1.thrd.Suspend();
Console.WriteLine("Suspending thread.");
Thread.Sleep(1000);
mt1.thrd.Resume();
Console.WriteLine("Resuming thread.");
Thread.Sleep(1000);
mt1.thrd.Suspend();
Console.WriteLine("Suspending thread.");
Thread.Sleep(1000);
mt1.thrd.Resume();
Console.WriteLine("Resuming thread.");
Thread.Sleep(1000);
Console.WriteLine("Stopping thread.");
mt1.thrd.Abort();
mt1.thrd.Join(); // wait for thread to terminate
Console.WriteLine("Main thread terminating.");
}
}
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