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Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 1998 15:58:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        jb@cimlogic.com.au, lists@tar.com
Cc:        eischen@vigrid.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pthread_cancel() function...
Message-ID:  <199812022058.PAA02860@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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> I don't think it is sufficient to just add what you call "wrappers".
> AFAIK, the thread cancellation is supposed to occur at any time while
> the thread is in one of the specified functions, not just at the beginning
> or at the end. This means that code is required to check the thread
> state and do things conditionally on that.

Yech!  You're talking only about cancellable libc routines, though,
right (system calls have no concept of userland thread states)?

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com

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