Subject: Re: Thread-safeness in cygwin32
From: [email-masked] (Geoffrey Noer)

21 Nov 1997 16:33:17 -0800
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To: [email-masked] (Michael Anderson)
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Michael Anderson wrote:
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> Can anyone make an informed, definitive statement on the thread-safeness
> of B18?

Yes.  Unfortunately it is not thread-safe and b19 won't be either when
it comes out.  Newlib does make some attempts at minimizing race conditions
but it isn't thread-safe.  The rest of the code in cygwin.dll from the
winsup directory would also need a lot of reworking.  Sorry...  :-(

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Geoffrey Noer
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