Thread-safety question

Aleksandr Konstantinov const@takas.lt
Tue Feb 18 06:09:00 GMT 2003


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.



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