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Re: new syscall stub support for ia64 libc

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David Mosberger wrote:

> The one I mentioned: signal handler gets called in this code right
> before the _IO_flockfile():
> 
> 	    _IO_FILE *_IO_acquire_lock_file			\
> 	        __attribute__((cleanup (_IO_acquire_lock_fct)))	\
> 	        = (_fp);					\
> 	    _IO_flockfile (_IO_acquire_lock_file);
> 
> and then the signal handler calls write(), which ends up getting
> cancelled.  What prevents this from happening?

Why should it be prevented?  If you call write in a signal handler you
either disable cancellation of live with it.

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â Ulrich Drepper â Red Hat, Inc. â 444 Castro St â Mountain View, CA â
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