Non thread safe primitives

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 04:53, John Zoidberg wrote:
> I've found some messages on the mailing list that uClibc is not thread safe
> http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/archive/4087.html (2001)

you found some pretty old messages

> But from here
> http://uclibc.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/uClibc/docs/threads.txt?rev—2
>1&view=markup (2005)
> it seems at least the C standard library (I/O, malloc, errno, math,
> etc) part is fully thread safe, and for the primitives that aren't, a
> reentrant counterpart is provided. Am i wrong on this?

uClibc should only be as thread safe as POSIX requires ... so if a function is 
not required to be reentrant, then generally there are _r versions
-mike
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