Wordexp() should be thread safe.

Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
Tue Aug 7 00:41:00 GMT 2007


> I do not think that wordexp() is described clearly as 
> MT-unsafe on the specification. 

This should be probably be considered an oversight in the specification.
wordexp has not traditionally been thread-safe (or even close), and it
should be listed in the 2.9.1 table.  


Thanks,
Roland



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