Re: Terminiting threads in a process RE: [PATCH] Problems with MPM threaded

[Justin Erenkrantz]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:49:51PM -0700, Aaron Bannert wrote:
> Doesn't pthread_mutex_acquire sit in sem_wait() or sigwait()? That'll
> let it be cancel()ed.

Nope.

As I posted earlier, man cancellation on Solaris 8 says:

     A mutex is explicitly  not a cancellation point  and  should
     be held for only the minimal essential time.

pthread_cancel wouldn't work.  And as Ryan pointed out, it is bad to try
and forcibly kill a thread.  -- justin