PTHREAD_TESTCANCEL(3P)

💖 PTHREAD_TESTCANCEL(3P) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're reading the POSIX Programmer's Manual together and this one is a certified little icon ✨

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

so before we even get into it, real talk: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. and here's the tea 🍵 — the Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so like, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior, iykyk), or honestly the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. no cap. check before you commit, babe.

✨ NAME ✨

pthread_testcancel — set cancelability state 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <pthread.h>

void pthread_testcancel(void);

that's it. that's the whole vibe. short king 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so for the actual description? refer to pthread_setcancelstate(). like, literally, that's where the info lives. this page is just the lil redirect, the "see my friend for the full story" moment 🫶

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

ngl this part is the serious one and we're gonna say it exactly right because it matters:

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

no like fr fr, if something looks cursed here, it's probably a conversion oopsie — go report it at that link, not to IEEE. 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie!! IEEE/The Open Group, 2017 — mwah, love that for them 💖🎀✨ bye pookie, go read pthread_setcancelstate() 🦋