[c++-pthreads] Re: pthread_cancel and EH: let's try this again

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 03:35:30PM +0100, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> >Compatibility with existing pthreads code is more important than
> >consistency with C++ exceptions.
> 
> Another point of interest, which I'm sure you've considered, is that 
> standard C functions such as write are deemed to be nothrow by C++, yet are 
> cancellation points in pthreads.  Scheme #2 stops this blowing up (by 
> deferring cancellation inside such function).  Scheme #1 blows up by 
> calling std::unexpected.

Um, if you defer cancellation inside all of the standard library
functions which C++ considers nothrow (which is pretty much all of the
cancellation points), then how do you ever get cancelled?

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