[En-Nut-Discussion] Thread management (killing threads)

[Ole Reinhardt]

Hi Rob!

> I know that in the history of NutOS killing threads has always been
> troublesome and I searched the archives to see what the current status was
> on this topic, without any new clues. Simply calling 'NutThreadKill' from
> the running thread doesn't work, at least that is my experience so far.

Just call NutThreadExit from the running thread or simply quit your
endless loop. In this case NutOS will remove the running thread from the
memory as soon as it was ended.

Another thing you should consider is to allocate memory dynamical from
the heap instead of reserving large stack space. So you could even save
memory within the context of a running thread as well.

Bye,

Ole Reinhadt



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