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Re: [PATCH] abort: Only flush file-based stdio streams before termination
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: fweimer at redhat dot com (Florian Weimer)
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:29:03 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] abort: Only flush file-based stdio streams before termination
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On Aug 17 2017, fweimer@redhat.com (Florian Weimer) wrote:
> Historically, glibc flushes streams on abort, which is not
> required by POSIX. This can trigger additional work
> (including callbacks through function pointers) in processes
> which are known to be in a bad state. After this change,
> only streams which are backed by the standard descriptor-based
> implementation are flushed.
That still doesn't make abort thread-safe.
Andreas.
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