Subj : Re: atexit handler: pthread_cancel, pthread_testcancel, pthread_join problem
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : annamalai.gurusami
Date : Thu Aug 18 2005 12:21 pm

loic-dev@gmx.net wrote:

> I share Joe's opinion here. It doesn't make a lot of sense to register
> an atexit handler that cancels the thread. The function exit() does
> just that.

Does this suggest that exit() will do a pthread_cancel() for
other threads running?  For example, if I have a thread whose
start routine is

void* start_thread(void* something)
{
    for(;;)
    {
        // lengthy operation A
        pthread_testcancel();  // op. B
        // lengthy op. C
    }
}

If I don't call pthread_cancel() explicitly for the above thread,
will the above thread still get cancelled only at operation B?

Rgds,
anna

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