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Re: [PATCH v8 1/8] nptl: Add C11 threads thrd_* functions

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:45:30 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/8] nptl: Add C11 threads thrd_* functions
References: <1517591084-11347-1-git-send-email-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> <1517591084-11347-2-git-send-email-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>

On 02/02/2018 06:04 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

   2. thrd_sleep uses nanosleep internal direct syscall to avoid clobbering
      errno, to handle expected standard return codes, and to avoid making
      the call a POSIX cancellation entrypoint.

Isn't this inconsistent with the conditional variable wait and threadjoin functions, which are still cancellation points?

On the other hand, a sleep function which is not a cancellation pointmay be useful.


Thanks,
Florian

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