Re: [Fink-devel] Workaround for pthread_cancel

[Stephane L. <le...@gr...>]

>Am Dienstag, 29.04.03 um 04:53 Uhr schrieb Ben Hines:
>
>>
>> On Monday, April 28, 2003, at 01:09  PM, Max Horn wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Am Montag, 28.04.03 um 13:37 Uhr schrieb Stephane Letz:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We are porting code that use the "pthread_cancel" and
>>>> "pthread_cancel"
>>>> functions. These functions are not supported of the current Darwin
>>>> version,
>>>> and it seems that they will not be supported in the near future.
>>>
>>> In OS X 10.2.5, pthread_cancel is in both headers and the system lib
>>> - and I am pretty sure they are in Darwin, too. And I believe they
>>> work correctly, too, although I am not 100% sure.
>>>
>>
>> They do not work at all, actually, and are not supported, though they
>> are in the headers and library. Functionality is waiting on making all
>> the system frameworks cancellable. (this has been talked about on
>> darwin-devel before) I'd not expect it until 10.3 since that's a
>> pretty big change.
>>
>Ah, thanks for the clarification, Ben. Yeah, that doesn't sound trivial
>at all.


Yes, but this does not answer the original question. Does anybody know if
the same thread cancelation behaviour can be implemented (maybe using
directly the mach thread API as a temporary workaround?)

Thanks

Stephane Letz


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