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Re: [PATCH] abort: Only flush file-based stdio streams before termination


On Aug 17 2017, fweimer@redhat.com (Florian Weimer) wrote:

> Historically, glibc flushes streams on abort, which is not
> required by POSIX.  This can trigger additional work
> (including callbacks through function pointers) in processes
> which are known to be in a bad state.  After this change,
> only streams which are backed by the standard descriptor-based
> implementation are flushed.

That still doesn't make abort thread-safe.

Andreas.

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