The cancel() function added in 5b11e43e for Qt 5.5 suffers from a
number of problems:
First, if runnable->autoDelete() is true, then the function suffers
from the ABA problem (see documentation written for trytake()).
Second, if runnable->autoDelete() is false, due to cancel() throwing
away crucial information instead of returning it, the caller cannot
know whether the runnable was canceled (and thus has to be deleted),
wasn't found or is currently executing (and thus mustn't be deleted),
or has finished executing (and can be used to extract the result).
Deprecate this dangerous API and replace it with the much more useful
Private::stealRunnable(), promoted to public API and renamed to
tryTake() for consistency with the rest of Qt.
Described the various caveats in the function's documentation.
[ChangeLog][QtCore][QThreadPool] The cancel() function suffers from
several subtle issues and has been replaced with a new tryTake()
function.
Change-Id: I93125935614087efa24b3e3969dd6718aeabaa4f
Reviewed-by: Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne@qt.io>
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