Subj : Re: Improving read-write lock
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Thu Feb 24 2005 05:27 pm

Joe Seigh wrote:
[...]
> are the rule.  C++'s conflating unix asynchronous signals as synchronous
> exceptions exacerbates the problem. 

What do you mean? 
 
>                                     If you want to see what asynchronous
> execptions look like, take a look at the Java realtime extensions. 

They use exception specs to manifest async-interruption safety. To my
knowledge, the language doesn't enforce it. I'd expect that POSIX/C++ 
would do it better (I mean integration of POSIX async. cancelation).
 
regards,
alexander.

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