Linux threads: cancellation, data and cleanup

A thread is the basic unit of processor utilization that consists of a program counter, stack and registers. In this article we discuss how they are cancelled, how data is handled within threads and cleaning up to prevent memory leaks when a thread terminates or is cancelled.

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