Kill a thread automatically

From: Adi Schwarz (adolf.schwarz.news.01-04_at_gmx.at)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:39:32 +0100

Hi,

If I have a class that runs a thread and no reference points to it, the
gc won't finalize the class because the thread is still running -> so
stopping the thread in the finalize() method won't work. Afaik this is
also true for daemon threads.

Is it possible to stop a thread automatically when there are no
references left? In my case it does not matter if the thread is
gracefully interrupted or just killed and whiped out.

greets,
-adi

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