Why is thread abort bad?
Abort is at best indicative of bad design, possibly unreliable, and extremely dangerous. It should be avoided at all costs; the only time you should ever even consider aborting a thread is in some sort of “emergency shutdown” code where you are attempting to tear down an appdomain as cleanly as possible.
What can I use instead of thread abortion?
Use a CancellationToken to abort processing of a unit of work instead of calling Thread. Abort.
When a thread is aborted the state is?
System.Threading.ThreadState Member List:
| Aborted | The thread is in the Stopped state. |
|---|---|
| AbortRequested | The Thread.Abort method has been invoked on the thread, but the thread has not yet received the pending ThreadAbortException that will attempt to terminate it. |
What is thread abort exception?
ThreadAbortException is a special exception that can be caught, but it will automatically be raised again at the end of the catch block. When this exception is raised, the runtime executes all the finally blocks before ending the thread.
How do you terminate a thread in VB net?
Abort Method (Object) to attempt to abort the thread. If a loop is running you can set a global boolean to false prior to launching the thread and in the loop if the boolean is true exit the loop and the sub using appropriate code and then try aborting the thread (although it may already have exited at that point).
What is the difference between thread interrupt and thread abort?
Interrupt wakes a thread out of any wait it might be in and causes a ThreadInterruptedException to be thrown in the destination thread. Thread. Abort wakes a thread out of any wait it might be in and causes a ThreadAbortException to be thrown on the thread.
What is the best way to terminate a thread?
Best way to terminate a thread
- Use a check variable like bool terminate.
- Use Thread.Abort()
- Run the thread is a AppDomain and unload the AppDomain to terminate.