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From: "bugdal at aerifal dot cx" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org> To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug nptl/12683] Race conditions in pthread cancellation Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:41:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <bug-12683-131-izFA0IfvOP@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw) In-Reply-To: <bug-12683-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12683 --- Comment #22 from Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> --- Steven, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. This issue report is not about changing which syscalls/functions are cancellable. For the standard functions that is specified by POSIX, and for extensions, the natural choices were already made and changing them would be problematic to their users. The topic at hand is just fixing the mechanism by which cancellation is performed so that there are not race conditions. If your question is about the syscall() function that applications can use to make syscalls directly, there is no open issue for making it cancellable, and as above, changing this would be problematic. One could envision a request for a separate version of the syscall() function which is cancellable, but as far as I know nobody has requested this and I think it's a bad idea to be adding features that encourage applications to make syscalls directly (since this is usually non-portable between archs due to subtle differences in the calling conventions and other issues like whether the libc-level structs match the syscall-level ones for a given arch). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-20 18:41 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2011-04-18 22:28 [Bug nptl/12683] New: " bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2011-04-18 22:35 ` [Bug nptl/12683] " bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2011-09-21 18:30 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2012-04-29 2:56 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2012-04-29 2:57 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2012-09-22 23:13 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2013-08-16 15:32 ` carlos at redhat dot com 2013-08-16 15:34 ` carlos at redhat dot com 2013-08-16 15:34 ` carlos at redhat dot com 2013-08-16 16:22 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2013-08-16 16:59 ` carlos at redhat dot com 2013-08-16 17:14 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2013-08-16 18:09 ` carlos at redhat dot com 2014-01-10 20:25 ` carlos at redhat dot com 2014-01-10 21:31 ` carlos at redhat dot com 2014-01-10 22:37 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2014-01-12 18:31 ` carlos at redhat dot com 2014-01-12 23:55 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2014-01-13 1:52 ` carlos at redhat dot com 2014-01-13 4:37 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2014-01-14 14:51 ` carlos at redhat dot com 2014-02-16 19:42 ` jackie.rosen at hushmail dot com 2014-05-28 19:47 ` schwab at sourceware dot org 2014-05-28 19:47 ` schwab at sourceware dot org 2014-06-27 13:35 ` fweimer at redhat dot com 2014-07-19 18:44 ` sstewartgallus00 at mylangara dot bc.ca 2014-07-19 18:54 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2014-07-20 18:15 ` sstewartgallus00 at mylangara dot bc.ca 2014-07-20 18:41 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx [this message] 2014-08-19 14:08 ` azanella at linux dot vnet.ibm.com 2014-08-28 15:02 ` carlos at redhat dot com 2015-01-15 13:20 ` dan at censornet dot com 2015-01-15 13:31 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx 2015-01-15 14:01 ` dan at censornet dot com 2020-06-08 14:04 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
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