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Re: Thread-safety question
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:34:46 -0600
Mark Brown <bmark@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
>
Thanks. Do You mean glibc compiled for GNU/Linux system is completely
POSIX compliant ?
A.K.