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For questions regarding the termination of processes, threads, and sessions.

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Is there any way to kill a Thread?

Is it possible to terminate a running thread without setting/checking any flags/semaphores/etc.?
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How to stop C++ console application from exiting immediately?

Lately, I've been trying to learn C++ from this website. Unfortunately whenever I try to run one of the code samples, I see that program open for about a half second and then immediately close. Is there a way to stop the program from closing…
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How to stop/terminate a python script from running?

I wrote a program in IDLE to tokenize text files and it starts to tokeniza 349 text files! How can I stop it? How can I stop a running Python program?
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SBT stop run without exiting

How do you terminate a run in SBT without exiting? I'm trying CTRL+C but it exits SBT. Is there a way to only exit the running application while keeping SBT open?
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Self-Terminating AWS EC2 Instance?

Is there a way that Amazon Web Services EC2 instances can be self terminating? Does Amazon have anything that allows an instance to terminate itself ("Hara-Kiri") after running for more than say an hour? I could change the scripts on the running…
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How to terminate a Xamarin application?

How to terminate a Xamarin application from any of the activities? I have tried both System.Environment.Exit(0) and System.Environment.Exit(1) as well as Finish() and killing all the activities. It still opens one blank page with default activity…
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PHP - exit or return which is better?

I would like to know in the following case which is a better option: In the PHP script, if the $fileSize variable is larger than 100, I stop the script; Case I: 100 ) { $results['msg'] = 'fileSize is too big!'; echo…
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Why not to start a thread in the constructor? How to terminate?

I am learning how to use threads in Java. And I wrote a class that implements Runnable to run concurrently to another thread. The main thread handles listening to the serial port where as the second thread will handle sending data to that same…
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Stopping Excel Macro executution when pressing Esc won't work

I'm running excel 2007 on XP. Is there a way to stop a macro from running during its execution other than pressing escape? Usually if I think I created an infinate loop or otherwise messed something up I hit escape and it throws an error but the…
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Amazon EC2 autoscaling down with graceful shutdown?

We're looking at using EC2 autoscaling to deal with spikes in load. In our case we want to scale up instances based on an SQS queue size and then down scale with the queue size gets back under control. Each SQS message defines a potentially long…
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Process.HasExited returns true even though process is running?

I have been observing that Process.HasExited sometimes returns true even though the process is still running. My code below starts a process with name "testprogram.exe" and then waits for it to exit. The problem is that sometimes I get thrown the…
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How to perform an async operation on exit

I've been trying to perform an asynchronous operation before my process is terminated. Saying 'terminated' I mean every possibility of termination: ctrl+c Uncaught exception Crashes End of code Anything.. To my knowledge the exit event does that…
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Do IDisposable objects get disposed of if the program is shut down unexpectedly?

What happens if the program exits unexpectedly (either by exception or the process is terminated)? Are there any situations like this (or otherwise) where the program will terminate, but IDisposable objects won't be properly disposed of? The reason…
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How to properly stop a multi-threaded .NET windows service?

I have a windows service written in C# that creates a truck load of threads and makes many network connections (WMI, SNMP, simple TCP, http). When attempting to stop the windows service using the Services MSC snap-in, the call to stop the service…
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ruby timeouts and system commands

I have a ruby timeout that calls a system (bash) command like this.. Timeout::timeout(10) { `my_bash_command -c12 -o text.txt` } but I think that even if the ruby thread is interrupted, the actual command keeps running in the background.. is it…
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