new syscall stub support for ia64 libc
David Mosberger
davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Tue Nov 18 20:08:00 GMT 2003
>>>>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:29:27 -0800, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> said:
Uli> David Mosberger wrote:
>> Hans Boehm pointed out that pthread_setcancelstate() isn't
>> asynch-signal-safe,
Uli> Where does he get this from?
I assume from here (table of async-safe routines in the "Signal
Concepts" section):
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/xsh_chap02_09.html
Uli> pthread_setcancelstate() is one of the three functions which
Uli> are guaranteed to be async-cancel safe.
Yes, that's why I _assumed_ it would be async-signal-safe, but it
seems now that was an incorrect assumption.
--david
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