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

[Florian Weimer]

On 08/17/2017 04:29 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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.

Do you mean async-signal-safe?

Sure, but I think it's an incremental improvement over what we have today.

I'm also fine with pulling all the flushing from abort.  But I don't
know if we have consensus for that.

Thanks,
Florian