[omniORB] omnithread and thread cancellation

[Duncan Grisby]

On Wednesday 1 May, ml wrote:

> has somebody ever introduced thread cancellation to
> omnithreads?  I know, that omnithread lacks support for
> thread cancellation for portability reasons, but we are in
> need of thread cancellation and all our platform do have it
> (Windows NT, Solaris, Linux).

Thread cancellation is almost always a bad idea, since you can never
be certain what state things have been left in. It is far safer to
implement it yourself with a flag that each thread checks
occasionally. If the flag tells a thread to die, it can clean up
safely.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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