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In a recent conversation with Mathieu Desnoyers I was reminded that we haven't written up anything about how deferred cancellation and asynchronous signal handlers interact. Mathieu ran into some of this behaviour and I promised to improve the documentation in this area to point out the potential pitfall. Thoughts? 8< --- 8< --- 8< In pthread_setcancelstate.3, pthreads.7, and signal-safety.7 we describe that if you have an asynchronous signal nesting over a deferred cancellation region that any cancellation point in the signal handler may trigger a cancellation that will behave as-if it was an asynchronous cancellation. This asynchronous cancellation may have unexpected effects on the consistency of the application. Therefore care should be taken with asynchronous signals and deferred cancellation. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> |
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README
This package contains Linux man pages for sections 1 through 8. Some more information is given in the 'man-pages-x.y.Announce' file. Installing and uninstalling =========================== "make install" will copy these man pages to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. To install to a path different from /usr, use "make install prefix=/install/path". "make remove" or "make uninstall" will remove any man page in this distribution from its destination. Use with caution, and remember to use "prefix" if desired, as with the "install" target. "make" or "make all" will perform "make uninstall" followed by "make install". Man page overlap and duplication ================================ Note that sometimes these pages are duplicates of pages also distributed in other packages. This has been reported about: man page also found in ------------------------------------- resolver.3 bind-utils, bind9utils resolv.conf.5 " passwd.5 shadow, passwd mailaddr.7 ? Copyrights ========== See the 'man-pages-x.y.Announce' file. Homepage ======== For much more about the Linux man-pages project, see http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/index.html.