That contradicts the assertion made in the article:
Well, since thread cancellation is implemented using exceptions, and
thread cancellation can happen in arbitrary places, we’re always liable
to a cancellation happening in a noexcept block, which is undefined
behavior, and which in practice will cause your program to crash.
So since C++11, and especially since C++14 where destructors are marked
as noexcept by default, thread cancellation is essentially useless in C++
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.
