Re: GThread cancellation

From: Sebastian Wilhelmi <seppi seppi de>
To: Andres Salomon <dilinger voxel net>
Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: GThread cancellation
Date: 12 Feb 2003 09:58:36 +0100

Hi Andres,

> Is there any particular reason why GThread doesn't have anything similar
> to pthread's pthread_cancel(), other than the difficulty of implementing
> such a beast?

I personally think, that thread cancellation is quite a bad idea. While
I'm not completely against it in GLib, I'm sure including it makes a
portable thread abstraction much harder with (in my mind) minimal gain.

Bye,
Sebastian
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