On Monday 16 March 2009 02:35:57 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2009 06:49:09 Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > (5) Can you create some rudimentary documentation about NPTL internals > > and put it into docs/*? I do not understand what this "cancellation" > > stuff is all about and why we need to bend over backwards to support it. > > I imagine there is a very good reason for it, but "imagine" and > > "understand" are two different things. Docs will really help here. > > If you want them proof-read and discussed, the mailing list is the best > > place. > > the POSIX docs explain cancellation. it's a pure pthread concept and has > no bearing when threads are disabled. see like pthread_cancel(3).
btw, if you arent able to glean an understanding from those, lemme know and i can throw together a "cancellation for dummies" doc ... although a quick google shows this as a pretty good intro: http://www.rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp/unix/DOCUMENTATION/HTML/AA-Q2DPC-TKT1_html/thrd0045.html -mike
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