Re: Extended attributes and thread safety

Chris Suter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hi Christian,

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Christiaan Hofman<[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anybody know whether it is safe to use the extended attribute C-library
> at sys/xattr.h (getxattr, setxattr, etc) on background threads? The
> documentation does not mention anything about thread safety, but I could
> imagine it to run into problems if it'd use global resources, and the
> functions seem to use at least one global variable.

Those functions will be thread safe. It's a bug if they're not.

Kind regards,

Chris
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