>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
    Jason> You are misunderstanding... some functions, due to their
    Jason> standardized or historic semantics, CANNOT be made thread-safe.

  For instance, strtok() would be hard to make make thread-safe, I think.

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