Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:07:33 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Re-entrancy questions.
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On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> >I don't think anyone has put any efforts into making djgpp's libraries
> >re-entrant or thread safe, so I suppose the answer is no unless
> >someone does the research to prove otherwise or make it so.
> 
> What about on other systems? E.g. anything other than DOS. Unix,
> principally.

The answer to this has nothing to do with the OS.  It usually matters 
much more what libraries are used in a particular environment.

Even if you use GCC on Unix, you still can link against at least 2-3 
different versions of libc.a.  Some of them are thread-safe (aka 
reentrant), others aren't.