policy on __libc_*

[Ulrich Drepper]

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> Ok.  I also have 1003.1-1996 at home to consult, so the complete list is
> available to me.  But I remain unclear on the answer to my question,
> perhaps the missing first paragraph of your message contains it.

This was menat to be a full stop, no further explanation planned.  But
I can give you one.  Only those POSIX functions which can block are
cancelation points.  These are almost all functions handling
file/terminal I/O but not something like tcgetattr.

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