noreentrant functions on Linux Advance Server 2.1 using gcc 2.96
Eljay Love-Jensen
eljay@adobe.com
Fri Mar 26 13:22:00 GMT 2004
Hi Jyotirmoy,
The thread unsafe ones are all the ones that return a pointer to an
internal buffer.
The corresponding thread safe versions have the same name with a suffix of
_r (for "re-entrant").
For instance, ctime() and ctime_r().
Bionic Buffalo lists these thread safe / unsafe functions:
<http://www.tatanka.com/doc/technote/tn0105.pdf>
HTH,
--Eljay
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