From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Thread-safeness in cygwin32
21 Nov 1997 16:33:17 -0800
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To: mka AT redes DOT int DOT com DOT mx (Michael Anderson)
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Michael Anderson wrote:
[...]
> 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
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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