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Re: __waitpid not a cancellation point

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Roland McGrath wrote:

Linuxthreads overrides waitpid but not __waitpid, so only the public name
is a cancellation point.  It also overrides system, so that is made a
cancellation point separately.  But it does not override popen/pclose,
so those use __waitpid with no cancellation wrapper inside or out.
Is this how it should be?
The standard does not require that functions which are implemented using other interfaces which are cancelation points must themselves be cancelation points. I.e., the standard does not require a specific implementation.

This is what we should take advantage of.

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