On 27 October 2017 at 13:12, Florian Weimer wrote: > * 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. Yes, that might be nice.
