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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-10-05 14:40:52 +0300 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-10-05 14:54:15 +0300 |
| commit | 50639a2a18a4670a4c0055569bfbb59492ce3dc4 (patch) | |
| tree | c72631fbfc34008b03667165f2bd731f81e33e1a /man7 | |
| parent | dbb01cbbdb60c34a16d9d48cb58ed3680a5dd36d (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-50639a2a18a4670a4c0055569bfbb59492ce3dc4.tar.gz | |
pthread_setcancelstate.3, pthreads.7: srcfix: wrap source lines at sentence boundaries
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/pthreads.7 | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man7/pthreads.7 b/man7/pthreads.7 index b39236c398..aa56589432 100644 --- a/man7/pthreads.7 +++ b/man7/pthreads.7 @@ -569,9 +569,11 @@ any nonstandard function that may block as a cancellation point. It should be noted that even if an application is not using asynchronous cancellation, that calling a function from the above list from an asynchronous signal handler may cause the equivalent of -asynchronous cancellation. The underlying user code may not expect +asynchronous cancellation. +The underlying user code may not expect asynchronous cancellation and the state of the user data may become -inconsistent. Therefore signals should be used with caution when +inconsistent. +Therefore signals should be used with caution when entering a region of deferred cancellation. .\" So, scanning "cancellation point" comments in the glibc 2.8 header .\" files, it looks as though at least the following nonstandard |