vfscanf in newlib

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 01:38:58PM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>Didn't somebody already do a threadsafeness audit of newlib?  If so,
>then we don't want to break threadsafeness with these changes.  I'm not
>familiar with threaded code in C; what is neccessary to insure that a
>given function is both reentrant and threadsafe (if a block of code is
>threadsafe it is automatically reentrant, but a reentrant block is not
>necessarily threadsafe, right?)

That's right.

AFAIK, newlib is not guaranteed to be thread safe.

So, I guess that Cygwin is, by extension, not really thread safe either.

I can think of a few functions in cygwin that are not thread safe, in
fact.  The enviroment manipulation is not thread-safe.  I don't believe
that vfork is thread safe.  I'm sure that there are many others.

cgf