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PTHREAD_CANCEL(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual PTHREAD_CANCEL(3P)
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux
implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
pthread_cancel — cancel execution of a thread
#include <pthread.h>
int pthread_cancel(pthread_t thread);
The pthread_cancel() function shall request that thread be canceled.
The target thread's cancelability state and type determines when the
cancellation takes effect. When the cancellation is acted on, the
cancellation cleanup handlers for thread shall be called. When the
last cancellation cleanup handler returns, the thread-specific data
destructor functions shall be called for thread. When the last
destructor function returns, thread shall be terminated.
The cancellation processing in the target thread shall run
asynchronously with respect to the calling thread returning from
pthread_cancel().
If successful, the pthread_cancel() function shall return zero;
otherwise, an error number shall be returned to indicate the error.
The pthread_cancel() function shall not return an error code of
[EINTR].
The following sections are informative.
None.
None.
Two alternative functions were considered for sending the
cancellation notification to a thread. One would be to define a new
SIGCANCEL signal that had the cancellation semantics when delivered;
the other was to define the new pthread_cancel() function, which
would trigger the cancellation semantics.
The advantage of a new signal was that so much of the delivery
criteria were identical to that used when trying to deliver a signal
that making cancellation notification a signal was seen as
consistent. Indeed, many implementations implement cancellation using
a special signal. On the other hand, there would be no signal
functions that could be used with this signal except pthread_kill(),
and the behavior of the delivered cancellation signal would be unlike
any previously existing defined signal.
The benefits of a special function include the recognition that this
signal would be defined because of the similar delivery criteria and
that this is the only common behavior between a cancellation request
and a signal. In addition, the cancellation delivery mechanism does
not have to be implemented as a signal. There are also strong, if not
stronger, parallels with language exception mechanisms than with
signals that are potentially obscured if the delivery mechanism is
visibly closer to signals.
In the end, it was considered that as there were so many exceptions
to the use of the new signal with existing signals functions it would
be misleading. A special function has resolved this problem. This
function was carefully defined so that an implementation wishing to
provide the cancellation functions on top of signals could do so.
The special function also means that implementations are not obliged
to implement cancellation with signals.
If an implementation detects use of a thread ID after the end of its
lifetime, it is recommended that the function should fail and report
an [ESRCH] error.
None.
pthread_exit(3p), pthread_cond_timedwait(3p), pthread_join(3p),
pthread_setcancelstate(3p)
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, pthread.h(0p)
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from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information
Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open
Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
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