Re: GThread cancellation

["Andres Salomon" <dilinger voxel net>]

It seems to be a necessary evil when dealing with functions that have the
potentional to block indefinitely (libc, xlib, etc).

> 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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