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Re: Thread-safety question
- From: Mark Brown <bmark at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Aleksandr Konstantinov <const at takas dot lt>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:34:46 -0600
- Subject: Re: Thread-safety question
- Reply-to: bmark at us dot ibm dot com
> Aleksandr Konstantinov writes:
> I'm looking for an information about thread-safety of libc functions
> on GNU/Linux systems (especially on SMP machines).
> Is it any kind of summary saying which functions can be treated as
> completely safe to use in multithreaded environment and which should be
> avoided.
A good starting point is the POSIX standard, in particular
the System Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 2.9,
Threads.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm
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Mark S. Brown
STSM, UNIX/Linux OS Standards
IBM Systems Group
bmark@us.ibm.com