[c++-pthreads] thread-safety definition

[Alexander Terekhov]

Mathieu Lacage wrote:
[...]
> The hard part seems to be 2) and 3) where, if you use exceptions to
> propagate a cancel operation from either a cancelation point or a
> pthread_exit call, you need to correctly handle the registered
> cancelation handlers _and_ the C++ catch blocks in the right order. That
> seems pretty hard (ie: impossible) to me, being just a _user_ of thread
> libraries.

You might want to take a look at this thread:

http://google.com/groups?th=f98e4fa7052aa25b
(Subject: __attribute__((cleanup(function)) versus try/finally)

regards,
alexander.