[Qt-interest] Waking-up a sleeping thread

[Harry Sfougaris]

Is it possible to "wake-up" a thread, after calling sleep(secs) on it?
I have a thread that periodically does a job. I have the following pseudocode in the run() function of my thread:
...
while (!stopped) {
	sleep( jobInterval);
	if (stopped) break;
	doLengthyTask();
}
...
my thread deconstructor is
myThread::~myThread() {
    stopped = true;
    wait();
}

My problem is when the user tries to exit the app, the program will stall for up to jobInterval seconds, as the thread might be sleeping, and the deconstructor waits for it.
Is there another way to handle this?

Thanks,
Harry