thread/process termination APIs?

[Geoffrey Young <ge...@modperlcookbook.org>]

hi again...

I was wondering if much thought has been given to official thread and/or
process termination APIs. I tried sloshing through the archives but didn't
find much discussion.

I understand why ap_child_terminate was removed (or at least I think I do).
 however, having something like ap_thread_terminate or ap_process_terminate
would be a really nice for gracefully knocking off large, runaway processes
(or threads, assuming you could accurately determine such an event) where
the mpm allowed for it - lots of shops I know of depended on this
functionality for performance reasons in 1.3 so being able to offer
something similar in 2.0 would be nice.

--Geoff