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

[Wil Evers]

David Abrahams wrote:

> Dave Butenhof <David.Butenhof at hp.com> writes:
> 
>>Besides, "reasserting cancel" in all the right places and no other
>>places sounds like one of those projects that ends up being a lot
>>more subtle and error-prone than anyone ever expects. ;-)
> 
> I don't really see what you think is complicated about this.  In
> Jason's model cancellation gets reasserted as soon as a caught
> cancellation exception is destroyed by falling off the end of the
> catch block without rethrowing.

What if, at that point, the thread has disabled cancellation?

- Wil