Re: question on thread safe GLibc with Zaurus

Kyle Hayes <[email protected]> writes:

> On Monday 20 January 2003 12:17, Balatoni Denes wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I never looked into this, but I would guess it's thread safe (glibc
> > 2.2.2 or something with linuxthreads init), i use threads anyway.
> 
> From the documentation, it is GLibc 2.2.3.  The Glibc documentation does
> not specifically state if the ARM port correctly handles threaded applications.
> 
> You have not seen any problems while using threads (not Java threads)?
> 
> If the C library is not rentrant, it can be difficult to find the problems.

Threads work perfectly fine on the Zaurus. If they didn't, it wouldn't
ship with libpthread. That said, far from all libc methods are
reentrant. Many depend on statically allocated buffers for results
(and often have an API that depends on that as well). This is however
not platform specific but libc specific and in many cases, API
specific (i.e no matter the libc / UN*X flavor the considerations are
the same). I'm sure you all knew that already though.

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