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Re: policy on __libc_*

To: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
Subject: Re: policy on __libc_*
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
Date: 05 Jan 2000 21:03:08 -0800
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <200001060455.XAA15640@frob.com>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> Ok.  I also have 1003.1-1996 at home to consult, so the complete list is
> available to me.  But I remain unclear on the answer to my question,
> perhaps the missing first paragraph of your message contains it.

This was menat to be a full stop, no further explanation planned.  But
I can give you one.  Only those POSIX functions which can block are
cancelation points.  These are almost all functions handling
file/terminal I/O but not something like tcgetattr.

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