On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:54:14AM +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > ah, yes, but it _is_ supported by DCEthreads - see > http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedce which provides, > horror-of-horrors, thread cancellation *emulated* on > top of POSIX threads. [snip, snip] > ... but what i am basically saying is, on NT and Unix, > thread cancellation _is_ possible, it's just that i > think you might not be too happy about the coding-route > you might have to take to _do_ it :) :)
Possible, but not robust. And, it would add 3.5 million lines of code to APR. Well, we could the APROS in that many LOC. =) Kind of like Quake - have an OS inside of your web-server. Thread cancellation just opens up a can of worms not because the OS doesn't support them, but because their semantics are ill-defined. We'd have to add cancellation points to our code. Not going to happen. Well, I'm not going to do it. I might even veto it out of pure spite. =) -- justin
