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Re: [NPTL docs] pthread robustness and pthread_mutex_consistent

2017-08-07 18:06 GMT+08:00 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>:
> On 08/07/2017 11:35 AM, Yubin Ruan wrote:
>> A programmer can call pthread_kill(), or call pthread_exit() wrongly (at the
>> wrong place). I don't know. I am writing some library so I have to
>> cover all the possibility.
>
> But in this case, merely recovering the lock does not roll back any
> partial updates that might have happened since the acquisition of the lock.

That is OK. I just don't want deadlock.

Yubin
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