* Should getaddrinfo_a be marked "MT-Safe env locale" (not "MT-Safe")?
@ 2021-03-08 18:44 Josh Triplett
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From: Josh Triplett @ 2021-03-08 18:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-man; +Cc: Alejandro Colomar, Michael Kerrisk
getaddrinfo_a uses a thread to call getaddrinfo asynchronously. However,
as far as I can tell this means it still has all the same caveats as
getaddrinfo. Notably, it will result in a getenv call, making it unsafe
if another thread concurrently touches the environment.
Given this, I *think* it would make sense for getaddrinfo_a to be marked
"MT-Safe env locale" just like getaddrinfo. This would make sure people
know that getaddrinfo_a does not avoid the thread-safety issues of
getaddrinfo.
- Josh Triplett
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