Requests delivery of a pending cancelation request to the calling thread.
1 – C Binding
#include <pthread.h> void pthread_testcancel (void);
2 – Arguments
None
3 – Description
This routine requests delivery of a pending cancelation request to the calling thread. Thus, calling this routine creates a cancelation point within the calling thread. The cancelation request is delivered only if a request is pending for the calling thread and the calling thread's cancelability state is enabled. (A thread disables delivery of cancelation requests to itself by calling pthread_setcancelstate().) When called within very long loops, this routine ensures that a pending cancelation request is noticed by the calling thread within a reasonable amount of time.
4 – Return Values
None
5 – Associated Routines
pthread_setcancelstate()