Cancelling a stdin.read?

[Lass Safin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 11 April 2016 at 14:53:31 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 April 2016 at 08:29:22 UTC, Lass Safin wrote:
>> Thus, my question is: Is there any way to cancel the read from 
>> stdin prematurely from another thread, so that the thread can 
>> finish?
>
> What operating system are you on?
>
> I wouldn't be using threads for this at all, you might want to 
> reorganize the program to get terminal events sent to the same 
> gui event loop so exiting it would exit all of it.
>
> But failing that, canceling an I/O request can be done by 
> sending yourself a signal on posix and on Windows there's a 
> system API call that one thread can cancel another thread's 
> blocking read.
>
> The D library would see these cancels as an error and throw an 
> exception. You could catch it or let it kill the thread, since 
> you want to exit anyway.

My savior!
I can't put it in one loop, since the window also has some 
autonomous features.