Subj : Re: pthread function behavior in C++ program
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Peter Dimov
Date : Sun Jun 12 2005 11:56 pm

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Peter Dimov wrote:

[...]

>>>> It's better because it's only one step from the "right thing". They
>>>> only need to re-cancel (not rethrow!) instead of terminating.
>
> There is no need for that (legacy thread cancel/exit unaware stuff
> with catch(...) aside for a moment), ...

You can't leave that aside as it's an important "use case". But this aside, 
:-)

https://listman.redhat.com/archives/phil-list/2004-May/msg00016.html

"The thread library does, and will probably even more so in future, alter 
the state of the library once a thread is canceled and this is not 
reversible."

Which is fine with me - let the thread remain irreversibly canceled - as 
long as they provide an exception name and don't mess with the C++ exception 
handling mechanism.

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