cancelation problem

[Erik Hensema]

> -----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.

>