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[Jason Merrill]

Jason Merrill wrote:
> Ted Baker wrote:
>> Since the bit is never reset, there is no race condition.
> 
> This is the first justification I've seen for Ulrich's position.  Can 
> you elaborate on how allowing us to reset the cancelled bit could lead 
> to a race condition?

Actually, I suppose there's no need to reset the cancelled bit and call 
pthread_cancel again to get the sticky cancel behavior.  At least with 
glibc we just want to clear EXITING_BIT so that the next test will cause 
us to throw again.

Jason