From: Damien Bobillot <damien.bobillot@m4x.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Unix.localtime not threadsafe?
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 12:38:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16378C5C-EEA9-4670-BDEC-46FDBBA54BDD@m4x.org> (raw)
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Florian Weimer wrote :
> * Bardur Arantsson:
>
>
>> I don't think the glibc/Linux localtime() man page explicitly states
>> this, but I expect that it returns a pointer to a *thread-local*
>> statically allocated struct tm... in which case there's no problem.
>>
>
> Thread-local storage is a recent innovation in the Linux camp.
> Previously, developers seem to think that no efficient implementation
> was possible. That's why there all the *_r variants (such as
> localtime_r).
>
For information : Mac OS X use thread-local storage since version 10.2.
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Damien Bobillot
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2005-09-03 10:38 Damien Bobillot [this message]
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2005-09-02 17:34 Yaron Minsky
2005-09-03 7:03 ` Bardur Arantsson
2005-09-03 7:20 ` [Caml-list] " Florian Weimer
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