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Cancellation points
- From: Simon Gerblich <sgerblich at daronmont dot com dot au>
- To: pthreads-win32 at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:30:18 +1030
- Subject: Cancellation points
Hi,
I'm having some problems working out which functions are cancellation points
when using pthread_cancel() with
pthread_setcanceltype(PTHREAD_CANCEL_DEFERRED, NULL). I'm using
pthreadsVC.dll on Windows 2000.
Is Sleep() meant to be a cancellation point in WIN32? I've read in the
Solaris reference manual that sleep() and usleep() are cancellation points
for pthreads on Solaris, but can not find a list of cancellation points for
pthreads on WIN32.
Also pthread_mutex_lock() is acting as a cancellation point in my code. I
have to put pthread_setcancelstate(PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE, NULL) before my
calls to pthread_mutex_lock to stop it acting as a cancellation point. If
the thread cancellation occurs in a call to pthread_mutex_lock(), the mutex
that was being locked returns EBUSY when destroyed with
pthread_mutex_destroy(). Has anyone else seen this happen?
Thanks for any help,
Simon Gerblich