[boost] thread cancellation

From: Slawomir Lisznianski (slisznianski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-06 21:12:16

Boost library, in general, is often appreciated for its minimal, yet 
complete and portable implementations of  various concepts.
Considering that thread cancellation, along with other thread control 
methods such as stop, resume, suspend etc, is either purposefully not 
supported or made deprecated in other libraries, including Java threads 
(forgive me for daring to leave C++ realm), wouldn't it be wise not to 
include such feature at all?

Slawomir Lisznianski; [ www.rhapsodia.org ]

Michael Glassford wrote:

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>>one question, though: i understand thread cancellation is gonna be
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>>the topics to work on.  to be honest, it is gonna be quite important
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>>in the future.  do you think it will be safe to say at least an
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>Thread cancellation in C++ is a difficult and often contentious topic,
>so I don't think it would be safe to say that. However, there is at
>least the beginning of a thread cancellation implementation in the
>thread_dev branch in CVS. I haven't looked at it yet to see how
>(in)complete it is.
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