From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Erik Hensema <erik.hensema@group2000.nl>
To: 'Pthreads-win32' <pthreads-win32@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: cancelation problem
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 02:20:00 -0000
Message-id: <A01E735D4940D311A3850090275559330BA998@NTSRV02>
X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00119.html

Hi,

I'm investigating a problem regarding thread cancelation. The thread I want
to cancel has PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS, however, this piece of code
blocks on the join():

		if ((retv = Pthread_cancel( recvThread )) == 0)
		{
			retv = Pthread_join( recvThread, 0 );
		}

Pthread_* are just macro's; they call pthread_*. 

The thread recvThread seems to block on a select() call. It doesn't get
cancelled.

Two questions:

1) is this normal behaviour? 

2) if not, how does the cancel mechanism work? I'm not very familliar to
win32 programming, so I don't really understand how the *Event() family of
calls work.

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Erik Hensema
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