cancelling

[Thomas Sailer]

"Bossom, John" wrote:

> Check to see if the code base for pthread is wrapping
> an exception handler around your thread mainline
> (the original code had an internal routine called "threadStart"
> which used Microsoft's Structured Exception Handling for catching all
> exceptions raised in your thread.)

The thread I'm trying to cancel was created with pthread_create,
and internally the thread routine is started through
_pthread_threadStart, which should be fine.

The thread that tries to cancel is the initial thread, i.e.
the one that called _main.

> Now, your thread is recognizing the cancel (the exception
> hex value is human readable: BAD DEED) and should have

I thought that the constant wasn't chosen arbitrarily :))

Tom