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Diffstat (limited to 'pthread_cancel.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | pthread_cancel.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/pthread_cancel.c b/pthread_cancel.c index 7d519ee..de2c5a9 100644 --- a/pthread_cancel.c +++ b/pthread_cancel.c @@ -113,16 +113,8 @@ pthread_cancel (pthread_t thread) }; /* - * FIXME!! - * - * Can a thread cancel itself? - * - * The standard doesn't - * specify an error to be returned if the target - * thread is itself. - * - * If it may, then we need to ensure that a thread can't - * deadlock itself trying to cancel itself asyncronously + * For self cancellation we need to ensure that a thread can't + * deadlock itself trying to cancel itself asynchronously * (pthread_cancel is required to be an async-cancel * safe function). */ |