How to force a thread to unwind it's stack?

[Frank Benoit]

Sascha Katzner schrieb:
> Why is there no way in D to force a thread to unwind it's stack, for
> example by sending it an exception like you do in Java with
> "Thread.interrupt()"?
> 
> Suppose you have an application which has a thread that has some
> important resources which need to be released before the application can
> quit and this thread is currently busy with something which is out of
> your sphere of influence (like waiting for a network packet or
> something), so that in the foreseeable future it can't look for a flag
> of the main thread to quit and release it's resources. How do you force
> this thread to terminate without compromising the resources it holds or
> having to release the resources manually in the main thread?
> 
> Here is an example of how D could implement this stack unwinding:
> "http://www.woodmann.com/crackz/Tutorials/Seh.htm#Exception handling in
> multi-threaded applications" (8th point)
> 
> LLAP,
> Sascha
> 

a tango ticket related to this:
http://dsource.org/projects/tango/ticket/1009