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		rwmj 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RIP pthread_cancel For sure! The only problem is there should be a non-blocking system-provided API and there isn't.

foota 3 months ago [–]

System provided is maybe a strange word to use here since getaddrinfo is a libc function, not a system call.

rwmj 3 months ago | | [–]

POSIX as the system, of course.

froh 3 months ago | | [–]

the system API is not syscalls but libc. so why does it feel strange?

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