Thread-safety question

[Mark Brown]

> 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