On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:05:20PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > therefore, i conclude that the dce/rpc codebase has successfully > > implemented thread cancellation in their POSIX/Draft4 thread > > library. > > yes cancellation is in the spec. i've never denied that. the problem is > libraries and code over which we have no control.
hiya dean, i mentioned earlier that people might like to go over that codebase [not with a fine-tooth-comb!] to review the techniques used, there, rather than to actually use the code. e.g. they have TRY / THROW / EXCEPT / CATCH macros that are used _really_ extensively throughout the code, and i suspect that these are a possible reason why MSVC++ adopted these macros quite so early on [ms reimplemented a wire-compatible and almost-api-compatible DCE/RPC] > there's a thread FAQ somewhere which talks about async notification. ack!
