pthread_cancel / sleep change in behaviour

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,.

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 11:18:57 +0300
Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 08:37:40AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 13:43:51 +0300
> > 
> > and it works there.
> > 
> > So, it is just a matter of time until the fix finds its way back to
> > 10?
> Yes, should be several days timeframe.

this sounds perfect.
> 
> > 
> > Of course, I do not ignore the signal now in the application
> > anymore. The application then works as expected on 10.2 STABLE.
> Well, the consequence of the bug, which affected you, is that it was
> allowed for the applications to ignore SIGCANCEL. With the bug fixed,
> the signal(SIGCANCEL, anything) becomes nop.

Was it just me being blind or is the documentation on this a bit
limited?

Erich