diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/pthread_setcancelstate.3 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man3/pthread_setcancelstate.3 b/man3/pthread_setcancelstate.3 index f684b128b6..0baed33264 100644 --- a/man3/pthread_setcancelstate.3 +++ b/man3/pthread_setcancelstate.3 @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ that must not be interrupted by a cancellation request. Beware of disabling cancelability for long periods, or around operations that may block for long periods, since that will render the thread unresponsive to cancellation requests. - +.SS Asynchronous cancelability Setting the cancelability type to .B PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS is rarely useful. @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ In general, other library functions can't be safely called from an asynchronously cancelable thread. One of the few circumstances in which asynchronous cancelability is useful is for cancellation of a thread that is in a pure compute-bound loop. - +.SS Portability notes The Linux threading implementations permit the .I oldstate argument of |