force exit from readline() function

Question

I am writing program in c++ which runs GNU readline in separate thread. When main thread is exited I need to finish the thread in which readline() function is called. The re

Answer 1

C++ standard input is not designed to be thread safe. So, even if there was a method to programatically stop it from waiting input, you wouldn't be able to call it from another thread. Of course, there could be an implementation specific way to do so.