[cpp-threads] pthreads cancellation

[Kevlin Henney]

In message <42701BCA.9030209 at cs.oswego.edu>, Doug Lea <dl at cs.oswego.edu> 
writes
>
>(Kevlin: I owe you a set of comment on the proposal you
>posted last week, but one quick note about it
>is that I think you need to tie in uniform task cancellation
>support. Which  I think means that you don't want to
>separate out joiners.)

What was the specific issue you had in mind? I had envisaged that 
cancellation is something that is carried out through joiners (or the 
currently opaque thread identity returned from threadof).

Kevlin
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