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pthread_cancel considered harmful
skaark.wordpress.com/2010/08/2 #c #clanguage #programming #linux #posix

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In C that would probably be okay though: no exceptions (on programming language level) and no destructors 🤔

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@m0xee You would still leak resources though, as calls to close and all can be spread through the code

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Yeah, true in many cases — could probably be mitigated with proper design. I mean at least something like exception within exception handler leading to runtime abort won't happen, which, again, depending on design, might be okay or a total disaster 😂

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