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

[Mark Mitchell]

George Shimanovich wrote:

> According to my colleges and mine experience using pthread in GNU/Linux
> entire program crashes when thread is cancelled due to abort() or
> cancelled thread hangs in system space. That is collaborated by this
> quote from Jason:
> 	>And the current status quo in GCC: 
> 	>(3) #1, except that the destructor for the exception calls
> abort())

I believe that happens only if the catch handler does not rethrow the 
exception.

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