pthread_setcancelstate()

Set a thread's cancellation state

Synopsis:

#include <pthread.h>

int pthread_setcancelstate( int state,
                            int* oldstate );

Arguments:

state

The new cancellation state.

oldstate

A pointer to a location where the function can store the old cancellation state.

Library:

libc

Use the -l c option to qcc to link against this library. This library is usually included automatically.

Description:

The pthread_setcancelstate() function sets the calling thread's cancellation state to state and returns the previous cancellation state in oldstate.

The cancellation state can have the following values:

PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE

Cancellation requests are held pending.

PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE

Cancellation requests may be acted on according to the cancellation type; see pthread_setcanceltype().

The default cancellation state for a thread is PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE.

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You can set this attribute (in a non-POSIX way) before creating the thread; for more information, see “QNX extensions,” in the documentation for pthread_create().

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Returns:

EOK

Success.

EINVAL

The cancellation state specified by state is invalid.

Classification:

POSIX 1003.1 THR

See also:

pthread_cancel(), pthread_setcanceltype(), pthread_testcancel()