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

[Jag Raman]

On 11/13/2019 10:30 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> 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?

Hi Stefan,

This is used in PATCH 41/49.

Thank you very much!
--
Jag

> Stefan