Thread Cancellation

A thread can request the termination of any other thread in the process. The target thread, the one being cancelled, can keep cancellation requests pending as well as perform application-specific cleanup when the thread acts upon the cancellation request.

The pthreads cancellation feature permits either asynchronous or deferred termination of a thread. Asynchronous cancellation can occur at any time. Deferred cancellation can occur only at defined points. Deferred cancellation is the default type.