[c++-pthreads] cancellation points report failure

[Alexander Terekhov]

Nathan Myers wrote:
[...]
> Uncountably many libraries, though, would reasonably be expected 
> to fail (e.g. corrupt memory, leak resources) if such an 
> unexpected exception ripped through.

All those libraries are simply NOT thread-cancel-safe (and I mean 
synchronous, not asynchronous cancelation). Well, you might want 
to take a look at http://tinyurl.com/33kjj and, uhmm, yeah,
http://tinyurl.com/2zcq6 (I guess that you have a sort of similar 
problem... except that you're dealing with code that was never 
meant to be thread-cancel-safe, to begin with).

regards,
alexander.