Subject: Re: THREAD SAFETY section
To: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/10/1998 15:33:01
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:25:01 -0400 
 Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com> wrote:

 > >Suggestons? Thoughts?
 > 
 > you mean besides making all the libraries thread safe and then
 > removing this section from all the man pages?  ;-)

You are misunderstanding... some functions, due to their standardized or
historic semantics, CANNOT be made thread-safe.

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