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Re: Wordexp() should be thread safe.
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: 西家宜史 <t-nishiie at soft dot fujitsu dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:41:17 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Wordexp() should be thread safe.
> I do not think that wordexp() is described clearly as
> MT-unsafe on the specification.
This should be probably be considered an oversight in the specification.
wordexp has not traditionally been thread-safe (or even close), and it
should be listed in the 2.9.1 table.
Thanks,
Roland