The article is kinda useless, to be honest. Seems to be some sort of advanced blog spam and not somebody speaking from real experience. Anyways, pthread_cancel

The article is kinda useless, to be honest. Seems to be some sort of advanced blog spam and not somebody speaking from real experience. Anyways, pthread_cancel can be of two types - asynchronous or deferred. Deferred is when cancellation happens only during a system call. It's the default and what you want. (You don't want the asynchronous mode.) Under the hood thread cancellation is a C++ exception, so you still get RAII, etc.