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Re: asynchronous cancellation
- To: "'Pthreads-win32'" <pthreads-win32 at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: asynchronous cancellation
- From: Ross Johnson <rpj at ise dot canberra dot edu dot au>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 14:17:26 +1100 (EST)
John, Jason, all,
The following applies to the C++ version of things, but SEH versions
should hopefully be similar.
Following on from John's explanation of C++ stack unwinding etc, and
the fact that pthreads-win32 implements cancelation by throwing an
exception, and the fact that the C++ version of pthread_cleanup_pop
is implemented as a destructor (after John's original
implementation):
For deferred cancelation:
1) stack unwinding should occur properly IMO
2) cleanup handlers should be called.
For async cancelation:
1) Jason's method could be used with the following simple change to
AsyncCancelPoint to work with the current pthreads-win32
mechanism:
void cancelThread(HANDLE hThread)
{
::SuspendThread(hThread);
if (::WaitForSingleObject(hThread, 0) != WAIT_TIMEDOUT) {
// Ok, thread did not exit before we got to it.
CONTEXT context;
context.ContextFlags = CONTEXT_CONTROL;
::GetThreadContext(hThread, &context);
// _x86 only!!!
context.Eip = (DWORD)AsyncCancelPoint;
::SetThreadContext(hThread, &context);
::ResumeThread(hThread);
}
}
// declare AsyncCancelPoint:
void AsyncCancelPoint()
{
// This is all it needs to do to call cleanup handlers,
// call object destructors, and exit the thread.
throw Pthread_exception_cancel();
}
For cancelation in general:
1) the following macro should be included in pthread.h:
#define catch(E) \
catch(Pthread_exception_cancel) { \
throw(); \
} \
catch(E)
Is this getting closer to the ideal, or am I way off the track?
Ross
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