Re: [c++-pthreads] C++ and posix threads

[Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 08:46:22PM -0800, Nathan Myers wrote:
> The only detailed proposal thus far has read() returning -1 in the 
> event of cancellation.

And the proposal is a complete non-starter, because the POSIX C
binding ALREADY says that synchronous thread cancelation runs the
handlers set up by pthread_cleanup_push, and then terminates the
thread.

You'll get zero uptake from library implementors or POSIX if you
try to change that semantic.


r~