[cpp-threads] pthreads cancellation

[Alexander Terekhov]

On 4/27/05, Boehm, Hans <hans.boehm at hp.com> wrote:
[...]
> Are we trying to address (hard) real-time issues with the threads API?

Async cancel is part of pthreads basic. But implementations are 
allowed to ignore it altogether. QoI so to speak.

> 
> My personal feeling is that real-time programming is really a
> completely different beast, and that pthreads has suffered a bit
> by trying to do two things at once.

I don't know. But the reatime profile/option is kinda separate.

> 
> In my view, RTSJ != Java.

Ok.

> 
> As far as C++ is concerned, I think in the discussion you referenced,
> Fergus Henderson makes exactly the point I was trying to make.

I think that Fergus Henderson misses the point.

regards,
alexander.