From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>,
Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>, nd <nd@arm.com>,
"Michael Kerrisk \(man-pages\)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
"libc-alpha\@sourceware.org" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:07:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va4zaeai.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1C1B38FC-1266-4A91-B8F6-20A0C49ED1E2@amacapital.net> (Andy Lutomirski's message of "Wed, 14 Nov 2018 06:46:47 -0800")
* Andy Lutomirski:
> Thread cancellation is a big mess, and we only really need to support
> it because on legacy code. The whole mechanism should IMO be
> considered extremely deprecated.
The part regarding legacy code is not true: people write new code using
it all the time. It's true that this feature is difficult to use, and
it is often employed in cases where it is not needed or
counterproductive. However, there are cases where code becomes simpler.
Thanks,
Florian
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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>,
Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>, nd <nd@arm.com>,
"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
"libc-alpha@sourceware.org" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:07:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va4zaeai.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1C1B38FC-1266-4A91-B8F6-20A0C49ED1E2@amacapital.net> (Andy Lutomirski's message of "Wed, 14 Nov 2018 06:46:47 -0800")
* Andy Lutomirski:
> Thread cancellation is a big mess, and we only really need to support
> it because on legacy code. The whole mechanism should IMO be
> considered extremely deprecated.
The part regarding legacy code is not true: people write new code using
it all the time. It's true that this feature is difficult to use, and
it is often employed in cases where it is not needed or
counterproductive. However, there are cases where code becomes simpler.
Thanks,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-14 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-10 18:52 Official Linux system wrapper library? Daniel Colascione
2018-11-10 19:01 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-11-10 19:06 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-10 19:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-11-10 19:20 ` Greg KH
2018-11-10 19:58 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-12 2:03 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-11-12 2:24 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-11-12 2:36 ` Greg KH
2018-11-12 16:08 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-11-12 20:03 ` Greg KH
2018-12-09 4:38 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-12-10 16:27 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-12-10 17:39 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-12-10 23:32 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-11-12 5:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-11 6:55 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2018-11-11 8:17 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-11-11 8:25 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-11 10:40 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 10:40 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 10:30 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 10:30 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 11:02 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-11-11 12:07 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 12:07 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 10:53 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2018-11-11 11:02 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 11:02 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12 16:43 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-13 15:15 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-11-11 11:11 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-11-11 11:46 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 11:46 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 12:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-11-12 12:25 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12 12:25 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12 17:36 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-12 17:53 ` Greg KH
2018-11-12 18:09 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-12 18:14 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-11-12 16:59 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-14 12:03 ` Adam Borowski
2018-11-14 12:10 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-14 12:10 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-16 21:24 ` Alan Cox
2018-11-11 11:09 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 11:09 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-11 14:22 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-12 1:44 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-12 8:11 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12 8:11 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12 13:19 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-12 17:24 ` Zack Weinberg
2018-11-12 18:28 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-12 19:11 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12 19:11 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-12 19:26 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-12 22:51 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-12 23:10 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-12 23:26 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-12 22:34 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-13 19:39 ` Dave Martin
2018-11-13 20:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-14 10:54 ` Dave Martin
2018-11-14 11:40 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-14 11:40 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-15 10:33 ` Dave Martin
2018-11-14 11:58 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2018-11-14 14:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-14 15:07 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2018-11-14 15:07 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-14 17:40 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-14 18:13 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-14 14:58 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-11-14 17:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-14 18:30 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-14 18:30 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-14 15:40 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-14 18:15 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-14 18:35 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-14 18:47 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-15 5:30 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-15 16:29 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-15 17:08 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-15 17:14 ` Joseph Myers
2018-11-15 21:00 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-11-15 20:34 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-11-23 13:34 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-23 13:34 ` Florian Weimer
2018-11-23 14:11 ` David Newall
2018-11-23 15:23 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2018-11-24 3:41 ` David Newall
2018-11-28 13:18 ` David Laight
2018-11-23 20:15 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-23 23:19 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2018-11-12 12:45 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2018-11-12 14:35 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-12 14:40 ` Daniel Colascione
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