C++: How does pthread_cancel() work?

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 2 February 2010 08:26, Christian Fröbel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a hard time figuring out how exactly pthread_cancel() works
> in a C++ program. It seems that a thread cancellation is somewhat
> similar to throwing an exception. But I couldn't find any proof or
> details about it. I'm not even sure this topic is gcc-relevant but
> hope someone can lighten up this issue.

It's not about development of GCC so it's off-topic.