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4 .Dt PTHREAD_TESTCANCEL 3
7 .Nm pthread_setcancelstate ,
8 .Nm pthread_setcanceltype ,
10 .Nd set cancelability state
16 .Fn pthread_setcancelstate "int state" "int *oldstate"
18 .Fn pthread_setcanceltype "int type" "int *oldtype"
20 .Fn pthread_testcancel "void"
23 .Fn pthread_setcancelstate
24 function atomically both sets the calling thread's cancelability state
31 returns the previous cancelability state at the location referenced by
36 .Dv PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE
38 .Dv PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE .
41 .Fn pthread_setcanceltype
42 function atomically both sets the calling thread's cancelability type
49 returns the previous cancelability type at the location referenced by
54 .Dv PTHREAD_CANCEL_DEFERRED
56 .Dv PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS .
58 The cancelability state and type of any newly created threads, including the
61 was first invoked, are
62 .Dv PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE
64 .Dv PTHREAD_CANCEL_DEFERRED
68 .Fn pthread_testcancel
69 function creates a cancellation point in the calling thread.
71 .Fn pthread_testcancel
72 function has no effect if cancelability is disabled.
73 .Ss Cancelability States
74 The cancelability state of a thread determines the action taken upon
75 receipt of a cancellation request.
76 The thread may control cancellation in
79 Each thread maintains its own
80 .Dq cancelability state
81 which may be encoded in two bits:
83 .It Em Cancelability Enable
85 .Dv PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE ,
86 cancellation requests against the target thread are held pending.
87 .It Em Cancelability Type
88 When cancelability is enabled and the cancelability type is
89 .Dv PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS ,
90 new or pending cancellation requests may be acted upon at any time.
91 When cancelability is enabled and the cancelability type is
92 .Dv PTHREAD_CANCEL_DEFERRED ,
93 cancellation requests are held pending until a cancellation point (see
95 If cancelability is disabled, the setting of the
96 cancelability type has no immediate effect as all cancellation requests
97 are held pending; however, once cancelability is enabled again the new
98 type will be in effect.
100 .Ss Cancellation Points
101 Cancellation points will occur when a thread is executing the following
111 .Fn pthread_cond_timedwait ,
112 .Fn pthread_cond_wait ,
114 .Fn pthread_testcancel ,
127 .Fn pthread_setcancelstate
129 .Fn pthread_setcanceltype
130 functions will return zero.
131 Otherwise, an error number shall be returned to
135 .Fn pthread_setcancelstate
137 .Fn pthread_setcanceltype
138 functions are used to control the points at which a thread may be
139 asynchronously canceled.
140 For cancellation control to be usable in modular
141 fashion, some rules must be followed.
143 For purposes of this discussion, consider an object to be a generalization
145 It is a set of procedures and global variables written as
146 a unit and called by clients not known by the object.
150 First, cancelability should only be disabled on entry to an object, never
152 On exit from an object, the cancelability state should
153 always be restored to its value on entry to the object.
155 This follows from a modularity argument: if the client of an object (or the
156 client of an object that uses that object) has disabled cancelability, it is
157 because the client doesn't want to have to worry about how to clean up if the
158 thread is canceled while executing some sequence of actions.
160 is called in such a state and it enables cancelability and a cancellation
161 request is pending for that thread, then the thread will be canceled,
162 contrary to the wish of the client that disabled.
164 Second, the cancelability type may be explicitly set to either
168 upon entry to an object.
169 But as with the cancelability state, on exit from
170 an object that cancelability type should always be restored to its value on
173 Finally, only functions that are cancel-safe may be called from a thread that
174 is asynchronously cancelable.
177 .Fn pthread_setcancelstate
181 The specified state is not
182 .Dv PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE
184 .Dv PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE .
188 .Fn pthread_setcanceltype
192 The specified state is not
193 .Dv PTHREAD_CANCEL_DEFERRED
195 .Dv PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS .
200 .Fn pthread_testcancel
204 This man page was written by
205 .An David Leonard Aq d@openbsd.org
209 .Xr pthread_cancel 3 .