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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$ ln -s ../path/to/libgotcha
$ make -Clibgotcha libgotcha.a libgotcha.mk
$ make
Either link your program against libac-safe.so
or request it at load time via $LD_PRELOAD
.