> > Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On this controversial subject, could somebody please - pretty please > > with a cherry on top - tell me what the current status is: > > - in general, > > - as implemented in the 3.4 series and > > - as implemented in the 4.0 series. > > > > At work we're using 3.4 and we have managed to shoot our foot of with > > this issue :-(, google gives a lot of hits on the issue but it is a bit > > hard to get the current impl. status for 3.4. Which in turn makes it > > hard to decide on how to bandage our foot. > > Could you provide a link to a description of the particular > problem? I looked around, and all I could find was > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111548 > > I suppose the controversial part is that you're using > pthread_cancel, which is somewhat frowned upon as > inherently unsafe.
There is a whole mailing list about this: http://www.codesourcery.com/archives/c++-pthreads/threads.html This has to be done correctly with the C++ standard and POSIX people and the GCC people will be involved but not on the GCC list as it just gets in the way. Thanks, Andrew Pinski
