> 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.
DCE/RPC is _very_ robust. That being the case its underlying mechanisms are very likely to be robust too. > And, it would add 3.5 million lines of code to APR. Nah. It would add the lines to add thread cancellation. The 3.5 million LOC is the _entire_ dce rpc codebase. Only part of that is the dce threads library. And, I believe there are some old dce/rpc team members in our midst who could know how this all fit together. I could be wrong though. Sander
