* Jonathan Wakely: > On 26 October 2017 at 15:08, Vuille, Martin (Martin) wrote: >> Back in 2015, the statement was made: >> "accept that you shouldn't use pthread_cancel in C++11" >> >> (cf. https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2015-08/msg00040.html) >> >> Wondering whether anything has changed or is likely to change? >> MV > > Nothing has changed. Would it help if you could mark threads as not subject to cancellation (such as those spawned by a C++ concurrency library)? Then the caller of pthread_cancel would get a clean error, and pthread_exit would abort the process with an explicit error message.
