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Subject: Re: [musl] Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/vdso/32: Add AT_SYSINFO cancellation helpers
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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