Question on pthread_cancel/pthread_exit and thread stack unwind

[Yufeng_Xiong@ltx.com]

Thanks for the suggestion, it is REALLY a good suggestion, however, the
real world is not that idea,
we are in a situation that it has to work, we can not depend on all
developers and third party code
to be all nice.

Yufeng




                                                                           
             Eljay Love-Jensen                                             
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Hi Yufeng,

Refrain from using pthread_cancel and pthread_exit.  Those are Big Hammers
and Sharp Knives.

Instead, set a variable that is monitored by the thread and set by the
owner-thread / main thread which signals the child thread to terminate
gracefully.

Mutex / condvar yada yada yada like normal apply.

HTH,
--Eljay