Re: possibly OT: threadsafe libc
Re: possibly OT: threadsafe libc
- Subject: Re: possibly OT: threadsafe libc
- From: Steve Checkoway <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:11:10 -0800
On Nov 21, 2005, at 9:45 AM, Eric Albert wrote:
It's unfortunate that we haven't yet documented the thread safety
of Libc in the same way as, say, Sun does for its man pages.
However, all of Libc is threadsafe except where it's explicitly
documented not to be...and I can't think of any cases in which it's
documented to not be threadsafe. Mac OS X uses multiple threads
very extensively, so a threadsafe Libc is essentially required.
From getaddrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3):
BUGS
The implementation of getaddrinfo() is not thread-safe.
BUGS
The implementation of getnameinfo() is not thread-safe.
- Steve
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