Closing A Thread (Multithreading)

I have created a thread using _beginthread(), as shown below:

Code:

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unsigned long m_thread;
m_thread = _beginthread(control, 0, 0);

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the standard way of closing threads created like this is via _endthread()

the only problem is i want to close this thread from another thread, so i cannot us that function as it ends the thread that its called from.

How can i do such ?

Well my problem is that i have a thread that gets started fine. THis thread then uses winsock, the problem is that winsock can freeze up and loop for ages thus the thread doesnt stop.

I need to be able to close the thread when it breaks like this.

Is there any way i can get a handle to the thread to then use CloseHandle() ??