still can't get over the fact that most of the possible uses of unix "kill" do not actually kill anything at all
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Replying to @FioraAeterna
pthread_kill is even worse naming, albeit consistent. Nearly everyone who's heard of it thinks it can "kill a thread", which is impossible.
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Replying to @RichFelker @FioraAeterna
Why can't you kill a thread? Isn't it simply telling the OS to stop switching to it? It might leak, sure, but thread will be dead.
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Replying to @ArvidGerstmann @FioraAeterna
Because no such operation is defined, for very good reason. It will leave program in an inconsistent and deadlocking state.
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