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jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) writes:

> but I believe the *_r functions were invented to make things work in a
> threaded world.

_r functions are also very useful for libraries so they don't clobber
application's variables.


	foo = getfoobyname("foo");
	libcall();
	printf("%s", foo->f_name);

might not do what you expect if the libcall also calls getfoobyname.

Love


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