1 Nov
2007
1 Nov
'07
10:31 p.m.
Peter Dimov wrote:
There are two main reasons, one, because a significant portion of the community doesn't want or need such branching, and two, because the C runtime library is (both de facto and de jure) part of C++. So a "C++ cancelation" that doesn't cancel the C blocking waits would be severely limited in practice, unless the C++ library is revamped to offer pure C++ equivalents to all blocking C functions. (It is still much better than nothing, though.)
Peter - Thank you for taking time to answer what I'm sure was a "silly" question. michael