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    SubjectRe: [musl] Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/vdso/32: Add AT_SYSINFO cancellation helpers
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    On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Linus Torvalds
    <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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    > "An implementation may also mark other functions not specified in the
    > standard as cancellation points"

    .. but that was from the Linux man-page. The open group has

    "An implementation shall not introduce cancellation points into any
    other functions specified in this volume of POSIX.1-2008"

    So yeah, it looks like there would need to be some way to filter things.

    Oh well.

    Linus

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