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Re: C++ vs. pthread_cancel
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- To: dank at kegel dot com (Dan Kegel)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org (GCC Mailing List), a dot p dot zijlstra at chello dot nl (Peter Zijlstra)
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:33:12 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: C++ vs. pthread_cancel
>
> Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> > On this controversial subject, could somebody please - pretty please
> > with a cherry on top - tell me what the current status is:
> > - in general,
> > - as implemented in the 3.4 series and
> > - as implemented in the 4.0 series.
> >
> > At work we're using 3.4 and we have managed to shoot our foot of with
> > this issue :-(, google gives a lot of hits on the issue but it is a bit
> > hard to get the current impl. status for 3.4. Which in turn makes it
> > hard to decide on how to bandage our foot.
>
> Could you provide a link to a description of the particular
> problem? I looked around, and all I could find was
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111548
>
> I suppose the controversial part is that you're using
> pthread_cancel, which is somewhat frowned upon as
> inherently unsafe.
There is a whole mailing list about this:
http://www.codesourcery.com/archives/c++-pthreads/threads.html
This has to be done correctly with the C++ standard and POSIX people and
the GCC people will be involved but not on the GCC list as it just gets
in the way.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski