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.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk
.\" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
.\"
.TH pthread_cancel 3 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.04"
.SH NAME
pthread_cancel \- send a cancelation request to a thread
.SH LIBRARY
POSIX threads library
.RI ( libpthread ", " \-lpthread )
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <pthread.h>
.PP
.BI "int pthread_cancel(pthread_t " thread );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR pthread_cancel ()
function sends a cancelation request to the thread
.IR thread .
Whether and when the target thread
reacts to the cancelation request depends on
two attributes that are under the control of that thread:
its cancelability
.I state
and
.IR type .
.PP
A thread's cancelability state, determined by
.BR pthread_setcancelstate (3),
can be
.I enabled
(the default for new threads) or
.IR disabled .
If a thread has disabled cancelation,
then a cancelation request remains queued until the thread
enables cancelation.
If a thread has enabled cancelation,
then its cancelability type determines when cancelation occurs.
.PP
A thread's cancelation type, determined by
.BR pthread_setcanceltype (3),
may be either
.I asynchronous
or
.I deferred
(the default for new threads).
Asynchronous cancelability
means that the thread can be canceled at any time
(usually immediately, but the system does not guarantee this).
Deferred cancelability means that cancelation will be delayed until
the thread next calls a function that is a
.IR "cancelation point" .
A list of functions that are or may be cancelation points is provided in
.BR pthreads (7).
.PP
When a cancelation requested is acted on, the following steps occur for
.I thread
(in this order):
.IP (1) 5
Cancelation clean-up handlers are popped
(in the reverse of the order in which they were pushed) and called.
(See
.BR pthread_cleanup_push (3).)
.IP (2)
Thread-specific data destructors are called,
in an unspecified order.
(See
.BR pthread_key_create (3).)
.IP (3)
The thread is terminated.
(See
.BR pthread_exit (3).)
.PP
The above steps happen asynchronously with respect to the
.BR pthread_cancel ()
call;
the return status of
.BR pthread_cancel ()
merely informs the caller whether the cancelation request
was successfully queued.
.PP
After a canceled thread has terminated,
a join with that thread using
.BR pthread_join (3)
obtains
.B PTHREAD_CANCELED
as the thread's exit status.
(Joining with a thread is the only way to know that cancelation
has completed.)
.SH RETURN VALUE
On success,
.BR pthread_cancel ()
returns 0;
on error, it returns a nonzero error number.
.SH ERRORS
.TP
.B ESRCH
No thread with the ID
.I thread
could be found.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
.BR attributes (7).
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.BR pthread_cancel ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
.hy
.ad
.sp 1
.SH VERSIONS
On Linux, cancelation is implemented using signals.
Under the NPTL threading implementation,
the first real-time signal (i.e., signal 32) is used for this purpose.
On LinuxThreads, the second real-time signal is used,
if real-time signals are available, otherwise
.B SIGUSR2
is used.
.SH STANDARDS
POSIX.1-2008.
.SH HISTORY
glibc 2.0
POSIX.1-2001.
.SH EXAMPLES
The program below creates a thread and then cancels it.
The main thread joins with the canceled thread to check
that its exit status was
.BR PTHREAD_CANCELED .
The following shell session shows what happens when we run the program:
.PP
.in +4n
.EX
$ ./a.out
thread_func(): started; cancelation disabled
main(): sending cancelation request
thread_func(): about to enable cancelation
main(): thread was canceled
.EE
.in
.SS Program source
\&
.\" SRC BEGIN (pthread_cancel.c)
.EX
#include <errno.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define handle_error_en(en, msg) \e
do { errno = en; perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (0)
static void *
thread_func(void *ignored_argument)
{
int s;
/* Disable cancelation for a while, so that we don\[aq]t
immediately react to a cancelation request. */
s = pthread_setcancelstate(PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE, NULL);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_setcancelstate");
printf("%s(): started; cancelation disabled\en", __func__);
sleep(5);
printf("%s(): about to enable cancelation\en", __func__);
s = pthread_setcancelstate(PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE, NULL);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_setcancelstate");
/* sleep() is a cancelation point. */
sleep(1000); /* Should get canceled while we sleep */
/* Should never get here. */
printf("%s(): not canceled!\en", __func__);
return NULL;
}
int
main(void)
{
pthread_t thr;
void *res;
int s;
/* Start a thread and then send it a cancelation request. */
s = pthread_create(&thr, NULL, &thread_func, NULL);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_create");
sleep(2); /* Give thread a chance to get started */
printf("%s(): sending cancelation request\en", __func__);
s = pthread_cancel(thr);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_cancel");
/* Join with thread to see what its exit status was. */
s = pthread_join(thr, &res);
if (s != 0)
handle_error_en(s, "pthread_join");
if (res == PTHREAD_CANCELED)
printf("%s(): thread was canceled\en", __func__);
else
printf("%s(): thread wasn\[aq]t canceled (shouldn\[aq]t happen!)\en",
__func__);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
.EE
.\" SRC END
.SH SEE ALSO
.ad l
.nh
.BR pthread_cleanup_push (3),
.BR pthread_create (3),
.BR pthread_exit (3),
.BR pthread_join (3),
.BR pthread_key_create (3),
.BR pthread_setcancelstate (3),
.BR pthread_setcanceltype (3),
.BR pthread_testcancel (3),
.BR pthreads (7)
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