Re: [RFC v4 PATCH 02/49] multi-process: util: Add qemu_thread_cancel() to cancel running thread

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 05:08:43AM -0400, Jagannathan Raman wrote:
> qemu_thread_cancel() added to destroy a given running thread.
> This will be needed in the following patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John G Johnson <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Jagannathan Raman <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Elena Ufimtseva <address@hidden>
> ---
>  include/qemu/thread.h    |  1 +
>  util/qemu-thread-posix.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

Is this still needed?  I thought previous discussion concluded that
thread cancellation is hard to get right and it's not actually used by
this series?

Stefan

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