On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:57:14PM +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: > > But this does not help the case at hand in any way. How would you interrupt a > > thread that is blocked in ReadFile()? The point of pthread_cancel() is that > > it interrupts blocked system calls > > There is no mention of such a guarantee in POSIX (section 2.9.5 Thread > Cancellation), so relying on that is undefined behavior. Eh? My pthreads(7) says that read() is required to be a cancellation point acrroding to POSIX. I didn't dig up the actual reference in the standard, though. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html