Re: [musl] Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/vdso/32: Add AT_SYSINFO cancellation helpers

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Mar 11 2016 - 14:44:58 EST


On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "An implementation may also mark other functions not specified in the
> standard as cancellation points"

.. but that was from the Linux man-page. The open group has

"An implementation shall not introduce cancellation points into any
other functions specified in this volume of POSIX.1-2008"

So yeah, it looks like there would need to be some way to filter things.

Oh well.

Linus