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From: Erik Hensema <erik.hensema@group2000.nl>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Cc: 'Pthreads-win32' <pthreads-win32@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: cancelation problem
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 23:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A01E735D4940D311A3850090275559330BA99D@NTSRV02> (raw)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Johnson [ mailto:rpj@ise.canberra.edu.au ]

> The thread I want
> > to cancel has PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS, however, this 
> piece of code
> > blocks on the join():
[...]
> > The thread recvThread seems to block on a select() call. It 
> doesn't get
> > cancelled.
>
[...]
> Pthreads-win32 doesn't support asynchronous cancelation, only
> deferred, which is also very limited. The reason there is no async
> cancelation is that it's very hard, if not impossible, to implement
> on top of Win32.

Ok, thank you for your explaination. I have solved the problem by adding a
timeout to the select() call, and looping it infinitely. The thread
cancelation now works as it should.

> 

             reply	other threads:[~1999-11-09 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-09 23:41 Erik Hensema [this message]
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1999-11-08  2:20 Erik Hensema
1999-11-09 17:20 ` Ross Johnson

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