Re: [PATCH 5/4] run-command: implement abort_async for pthreads

> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:57:14PM +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> >
> >> > But this does not help the case at hand in any way. How would you interrupt a
> >> > thread that is blocked in ReadFile()? The point of pthread_cancel() is that
> >> > it interrupts blocked system calls
> >>
> >> There is no mention of such a guarantee in POSIX (section 2.9.5 Thread
> >> Cancellation), so relying on that is undefined behavior.
> >
> > Eh? My pthreads(7) says that read() is required to be a cancellation
> > point acrroding to POSIX. I didn't dig up the actual reference in the
> > standard, though.
> 
> I don't understand where the implementor would get that from after
> reading through it, but if there's something I've missed we can fix it
> by replacing my pthread_cancel with this, no?

> static inline int pthread_cancel(pthread_t thread)
> {
> 	SetEvent(thread.cancel_event);
> 	CancelSynchronousIo(thread.handle);
> }