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> It's hard to use this correctly. Should you really implement a
> joinWithTimeout() I think it should come with a big fat warning in the
> documentation. I would certainly stay away from doing anything beyond calling
> "exit" if join times out since I'm pretty sure I wouldn't get it right.

I don't understand the concern here.  If you're dealing with threads, you have to understand the memory model; that's a given.  There are a practically infinite number of ways I can write wrong code with this API as well as the entire existing EPICS Base API.
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