On Sep 27, 2016 14:51, "Hal Murray" <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote: > > man 7 signal has a long list of what you can do in a signal handler. (all > other system calls are unsafe) > > Is there something similar that applies to killing threads? If so, where is > it documented? > > For example, if I kill a thread that is in the middle of malloc, are things > guaranteed to work correctly or can some global state be left in a broken > condition. (or a lock locked, or ...)
There are no such guarantees. Killing threads is basically never safe.
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