Re: is NetBSD's pthread_setcancelstate() async-signal-safe?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <537E2D2F.7000205%bbn.com@localhost>, Richard Hansen  
<rhansen%bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>The Austin Group (POSIX standards body) is currently considering the
>following bug report:
>
>    Bug #615: pthread_setcancelstate should be async-signal-safe
>    http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=615
>
>Before acting on it, the group would like to know how existing
>implementations behave.  Is the NetBSD libpthread implementation of
>pthread_setcancelstate() async-signal-safe?
>
>Specification of pthread_setcancelstate():
>http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pthread_setcancelstate.html
>
>Definition of async-signal-safe:
>http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_27
>
>Also see:
>http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2_chap02.html#tag_15_04_03_03
>http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/xrat/V4_xsh_chap02.html#tag_22_02_04_04

I think it is not because it calls pthread_exit() indirectly.

christos