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

On Aug 17 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> In your opinion, should we remove the flushing altogether?

Yes.  abort must be thread-safe, and there is no way to do flushing
without locking.

> We still have a similar problem during regular process termination, though.

_IO_cleanup must do locking as well, of course.

Andreas.

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