C++ vs. pthread_cancel

[Andrew Pinski]

> 
> 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