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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2012-05-15 09:41:27 +0530
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Allow a single-threaded program to cancel itself
There is nothing in the POSIX specification to disallow a single-threaded program from cancelling itself, so we forcibly enable multiple_threads to allow the next available cancellation point in the thread to run. Also added additional tests to cover various cancellation scenarios.
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+2012-05-15 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
+ Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
+
+ [BZ #13613]
+ * Makefile (tests): Add test cases.
+ * descr.h (struct pthread): Add a comment describing multiple_threads.
+ * pthreadP.h (__pthread_multiple_threads): Expand comment to include
+ single-process case.
+ * pthread_cancel.c (pthread_cancel): Enable multiple_threads
+ before setting cancelstate of the thread.
+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/libc_multiple_threads.c
+ (__libc_multiple_threads): Add explanatory comment.
+ * tst-cancel-self-cancelstate.c: New test case.
+ * tst-cancel-self-canceltype.c: Likewise.
+ * tst-cancel-self-cleanup.c: Supporting file for test cases.
+ * tst-cancel-self-testcancel.c: New test case.
+ * tst-cancel-self.c: Likewise.
+ * vars.c: Expand comment to include single-process case.
+
2012-05-14 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
* sysdeps/x86_64/tls.h: Don't include <bits/wordsize.h>.