Thread::kill

(PECL pthreads < 3.0.0)

Thread::kill — Execution

Warning

This method has been removed in pthreads v3.

Description

public Thread::kill ( void ) : void

Forces the referenced Thread to terminate

Warning

The programmer should not ordinarily kill Threads by force

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

A boolean indication of success

Examples

Example #1 Kill the referenced Thread

<?php
class T extends Thread {
    public function run() {
        $stdin = fopen("php://stdin", "r");
        while(($line = fgets($stdin))) {
            echo $line;
        }
    }
}

$t = new T();
$t->start();

var_dump($t->kill());
?>

The above example will output:

bool(true)