[c++-pthreads] Re: C++ and posix threads

[Alexander Terekhov]

Nathan Myers wrote:
[...]
> Nothing in the goal of supporting thread cancellation seems to 
> require violating ISO-standard language semantics. 

Exception based thread cancellation comes from the DCE (CMA aside
for a moment) which *by far* predates ISO C++.

http://archive.adaic.com/tools/bindings/DCE/THREADS/pthread_exc.h

regards,
alexander.