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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use thread-safe locale functions
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:19:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC48B96.7040002@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271170217-10904-1-git-send-email-remi@remlab.net>

Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> setlocale() is not thread-safe. It can actually trigger a crash if
> another thread uses locale informations at the same time in the process.
> Library code should use POSIX newlocale/duplocale/uselocale/freelocale
> instead.

I don't think these functions are available in small embedded C
libraries like dietlibc.


Regards,
Clemens
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-13 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-13 14:50 [PATCH] Use thread-safe locale functions Rémi Denis-Courmont
2010-04-13 15:19 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2010-04-13 15:25   ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2010-04-13 15:54   ` [PATCH] Check if uselocale() is present Rémi Denis-Courmont

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