[Qt-interest] Proper way to terminate QThreads

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Terça-feira 17. Novembro 2009, às 22.16.33, Cyril C. escreveu:
> Thiago Macieira a écrit :
> > Hi Ben
> >
> > Calling quit() from any thread is thread-safe. That will cause the event
> > loop to exit at the earliest opportunity. The control will return to the
> > run() function, which should just return at that point.
> 
> I have an additional question on that topic : when you say "at the
> earliest opportunity", does it mean that any pending events in the
> thread's event loop will be discarded ?

Yes, that's correct.

The current event queue being processed gets finished before the event loop 
returns. And quit() doesn't cause instantaneous exit either: any functions 
running need to return control to the event loop in the first place.

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