[c++-pthreads] What are the real issues?

[Alexander Terekhov]

Fergus Henderson wrote:
[...]
> Thread-safe code which may perform unbounded computation without encountering
> a cancellation-point is not what I would call cancellation-safe.

Yep.

> 
> So even if code has been written to be thread-safe, you need to analyze it
> in detail in order to be sure that it will be properly cancellation-safe.

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regards,
alexander.