[rostayob]

I talk about the cancelability state and how it can help us shortly after that statement: https://mazzo.li/posts/stopping-linux-threads.html#controlle... . In hindsight I should have made a forward reference to that section when talking about C++. My broad point was that combining C++ exceptions and thread cancellation is fraught with danger and imo best avoided.

[kazinator]

I regret to be informed that they still haven't figured this out. I was very active in thread on Linux over 20 years ago, working on glibc and whatnot. That was before C++ had threads, needless to say. There was a time when cancelation didn't do C++ unwinding, only the PTHREAD_CLEANUP_PUSH handlers. So of course cancellation and C++ exceptions was a bad cocktail then.