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		saagarjha on June 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rich Felker of musl libc comments on Google's LLVM... > It's an API that provides no actual value (you can implement it yourself via signals) > is a giant minefield if you care about not leaking or deadlocking Aren't these two in opposition?

murderfs on June 26, 2019 [–]

No. pthread_cancel implemented completely correctly is inherently a giant minefield. (Details in a reply to a sibling post)

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