[c++-pthreads] thread-safety definition

[Dave Butenhof]

Alexander Terekhov wrote:

>Heck, let's mandate to have async-cancel-safe strlen()-and-alike
>stuff "in-addition-to OR instead-of" async-cancel-unsafe stuff 
>and simply use C++ function overloading to pick the right stuff 
>(async_cancel_safe inside async_cancel{}), okay?
>  
>
Let's not.

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