concrete library-code example

David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Tue Jan 6 14:04:54 UTC 2004


Dave Butenhof <David.Butenhof at hp.com> writes:

> And I'm deliberately discounting the mention I've seen several times
> in this list of "thread-safe" libraries that aren't
> "cancel-safe". Such libraries are simply broken, from basic
> design. Cancellation is a basic and important part of the POSIX thread
> model, and if you're not safe you're not safe.

Do any other threading models count?

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