Re: [c++-pthreads] Restating the Jason model

[Mark Mitchell <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 13:12, Jason Merrill wrote:
> On 12 Jan 2004 12:51:21 -0800, Mark Mitchell <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 12:39, Jason Merrill wrote:
> 
> > I believe that I would support all elements of your proposal, with the
> > possible exception of:
> >
> >> My preference is still to amend the C++ standard to allow stdio functions
> >> to throw cancellation.
> >
> > However, I don't see that as a particularly big deal one way or the
> > other.  The observation has already been made that the goal of
> > preserving existing C++ code is probably incompatible with introducing
> > cancellation, although Nathan's ETHREADCANCELLED idea is designed to get
> > around that.
> 
> As others have pointed out, the ECANCELLED idea doesn't work; i/o calls
> from cleanup code would also fail with ECANCELLED, so (some of) the cleanup
> wouldn't actually happen.

Yes, I'm not disagreeing.  I've always thought exceptions were the
natural thing here, although I very much appreciate Nathan taking the
time to put together a nicely written proposal.

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