2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 89fb13d..d93f5b4 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 CHANGES:
 
+CHANGE 159: BGe 19-Mar-24
+   * fix small internal issue with when hitting timeout on thread kill during thread_cancel() in pthread implementation
+
 CHANGE 158: BGe 22-Feb-24
    * naive luajit detection in PUC-Lua-based builds, and vice-versa to detect mismatches
    * internal version bumped to 3.16.3
diff --git a/src/cancel.cpp b/src/cancel.cpp
index 8558008..20c30f8 100644
--- a/src/cancel.cpp
+++ b/src/cancel.cpp
@@ -156,10 +156,10 @@ static cancel_result thread_cancel_hard( lua_State* L, Lane* s, double secs_, bo
 #if THREADAPI == THREADAPI_PTHREAD
         // pthread: make sure the thread is really stopped!
         // note that this may block forever if the lane doesn't call a cancellation point and pthread doesn't honor PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS
-        result = THREAD_WAIT( &s->thread, waitkill_timeout_, &s->done_signal, &s->done_lock, &s->status);
+        result = THREAD_WAIT( &s->thread, waitkill_timeout_, &s->done_signal, &s->done_lock, &s->status) ? CR_Killed : CR_Timeout;
         if( result == CR_Timeout)
         {
-            return luaL_error( L, "force-killed lane failed to terminate within %f second%s", waitkill_timeout_, waitkill_timeout_ > 1 ? "s" : "");
+            (void) luaL_error( L, "force-killed lane failed to terminate within %f second%s", waitkill_timeout_, waitkill_timeout_ > 1 ? "s" : "");
         }
 #else
         (void) waitkill_timeout_; // unused