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Re: Thread-safeness in cygwin32
- To: mka at redes dot int dot com dot mx (Michael Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Thread-safeness in cygwin32
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 02:00:11 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
Michael Anderson wrote:
[...]
> Can anyone make an informed, definitive statement on the thread-safeness
> of B18?
Yes. Unfortunately it is not thread-safe and b19 won't be either when
it comes out. Newlib does make some attempts at minimizing race conditions
but it isn't thread-safe. The rest of the code in cygwin.dll from the
winsup directory would also need a lot of reworking. Sorry... :-(
--
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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