Hal Murray <[email protected]>:
> man 7 signal has a long list of what you can do in a signal handler. (all
> other system calls are unsafe)
>
> Is there something similar that applies to killing threads? If so, where is
> it documented?
>
> For example, if I kill a thread that is in the middle of malloc, are things
> guaranteed to work correctly or can some global state be left in a broken
> condition. (or a lock locked, or ...)
It varies. Some library calls are documented to be thread-safe. The glibc
version of malloc is; some older versions were not. In general, if it's
not documented thread-safe you need to wrap your own mutex around it.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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