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kill() public

Terminates thr and schedules another thread to be run, returning the terminated Thread. If this is the main thread, or the last thread, exits the process.

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/*
 *  call-seq:
 *     thr.exit        => thr
 *     thr.kill        => thr
 *     thr.terminate   => thr
 *  
 *  Terminates <i>thr</i> and schedules another thread to be run, returning
 *  the terminated <code>Thread</code>.  If this is the main thread, or the
 *  last thread, exits the process.
 */

VALUE
rb_thread_kill(thread)
    VALUE thread;
{
    rb_thread_t th = rb_thread_check(thread);

    rb_kill_thread(th, 0);
    return thread;
}

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