Re: thread cancellation

[Ian McKellar <yakk yakk net>]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 00:37, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 12:21, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Has anyone else solved this problem in a different way?  Opinions?
> 
> It seems to me that a good way to solve this is by sending signals to
> the threads. 

BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE

Traditional linuxthreads handle signals differently from nptl threads
and posix threads, and in fact I don't believe you can send signals to
threads in posix threads.

Signals are never the answer.

Ian [replying to mail too late at night]