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Cc: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 10/19/2010 08:36 PM, Balbir Singh wrote:
> Ideally you need
>
>          s = pthread_setcancelstate(PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE, NULL);
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> But qemu will need to wrap this around as well.

Why?  QEMU is never using thread cancellation.

Paolo