Any other thread may call this to request that this thread object finish at the earliest possible moment. This may be extremely inconvenient because under Unix, any system call which involves a wait may jump directly to the cleanup routine. On Win32, this must be emulated using regular polls to checkForTerminate() which all TnFOX classes involving waits do for you. Note that this call does not wait for the thread to terminate, this can be done using wait()
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