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libac-safe

This proof-of-concept library makes POSIX asynchronous cancellability safe to use, although it will still cause resource leaks without a carefully-crafted cleanup handler.

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The entire contents and history of this repository are distributed under the following license:

Copyright 2022 Carnegie Mellon University

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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Building libac-safe

  1. $ ln -s ../path/to/libgotcha
  2. $ make -Clibgotcha libgotcha.a libgotcha.mk
  3. $ make

Using libac-safe

Either link your program against libac-safe.so or request it at load time via $LD_PRELOAD.

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