[c++-pthreads] Re: thread-safety definition

[Wil Evers]

Dave Butenhof wrote:

> If cancel is implemented completely as a "full stature" C++ exception, 
> and none of the "exception safe" code does anything silly like 
> "catch(...)" without a re-throw, then, yes, it's likely to be reasonably 
> cancel-safe. 

A catch(...) without a re-throw isn't necessarily a silly thing to do, 
especially in a destructor.  Sometimes, the only alternative is to risk 
a call to terminate().

- Wil