Stefan Berger/Watson/IBM wrote on 03/22/2012 05:00:45 PM:

Maybe we should go with the previous code from a while ago which was setting a flag for the thread to die. It caused other work-arounds to become necessary but at least we don't have to deal with possibly async. deaths of threads holding locks.

Yes, I have in mind a way to do this now that should keep the simplicity and still not use signals. I'll try this out and repost. +-DLS