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Old 10-17-2008
Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVA-2008:148 ] pulseaudio
LinuxSecurity.com: Some issues relating to thread cancellation have been discovered in the pulseaudio package shipped with Mandriva Linux 2009.0. These issues could result in the crash of an application acting as a pulseaudio client. This condition is greatly exacerbated when the client is unable to connect to the pulseaudio server. Due to the fact that libcanberra is used to play event sounds in GTK apps, this problem could present itself when running GTK applications as root which, under some circumstances, was unable to connect to the user's pulseaudio daemon.

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pthread_testcancel

PTHREAD_TESTCANCEL(3)					     Linux Programmer's Manual					     PTHREAD_TESTCANCEL(3)

NAME

       pthread_testcancel - request delivery of any pending cancellation request

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pthread.h>

       void pthread_testcancel(void);

       Compile and link with -pthread.

DESCRIPTION

       Calling pthread_testcancel() creates a cancellation point within the calling thread, so that a thread that is otherwise executing code that
       contains no cancellation points will respond to a cancellation request.

       If cancelability is disabled (using pthread_setcancelstate(3)), or no cancellation request is pending, then a call to pthread_cancel()  has
       no effect.

RETURN VALUE

       This  function  does  not return a value.  If the calling thread is canceled as a consequence of a call to this function, then the function
       does not return.

ERRORS

       This function always succeeds.

CONFORMING TO

       POSIX.1-2001.

EXAMPLE

       See pthread_cleanup_push(3).

SEE ALSO

       pthread_cancel(3), pthread_cleanup_push(3), pthread_setcancelstate(3), pthreads(7)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux								    2008-11-17						     PTHREAD_TESTCANCEL(3)