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

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Nathan Myers <ncm at cantrip.org> writes:

[...]

| 7. We may assume we can hijack/shadow standard system and library
| calls and add our own semantics, such as causing them to report 

Similar experiment has been tried in a previous version of Standard
C++.  It led to complete disaster, installing non-portability as the
de facto norm as far as inherited C-headers are concerned, in both the 
<cxxx> and <xxx.h> form.  I don't think it is an option we can
contemplate. 

-- Gaby