threads/72429: threads blocked in stdio (fgets, etc) are not cancellable in 5.3 (works in 4.x)

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, David Xu wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR threads/72429; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: David Xu <davidxu at FreeBSD.org>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, mark at verniernetworks.com
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: threads/72429: threads blocked in stdio (fgets, etc) are not
> cancellable in 5.3 (works in 4.x)
> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:27:45 +0800
>
> Should we close the PR now ? since POSIX does not say stdio routines
> are cancellation points. the libc_r happened to support it, it is lucky,
> but may cause problems too.

Yes!

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