Subject: Re: THREAD SAFETY section
To: Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/11/1998 09:08:27
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:39:40 -0400 
 "Michael C. Richardson" <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> wrote:

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

In fact, impossible :-)

IIRC, POSIX added strtok_r() (too bad they didn't use strsep(), which 4.4BSD
already had :-)

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