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Re: glibc as a shared object vs. strtok


On Thursday 05 February 2009 15:24:28 StanisÅaw T. Findeisen wrote:
> I am having a question regarding strtok:
>
>          #include <string.h>
>
>          char *strtok(char *str, const char *delim);
>
> The manual page says it is not thread safe because it uses a static
> buffer. The question is: how come this function can be a part of a
> shared object, and thus be shared among multiple processes?

writable data isnt shared among processes
-mike


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