Re: strage cthread behavior

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 07:35:55AM +0400, Igor Shmukler wrote:
> > libio is thread safe, though, and if he is usig a recent binary system
> > (post ABI change), he will use libio and not stdio.
> 
> POSIX does not guarantee that printf is thread-safe

Why do you think so?  POSIX 1003.1 defines that all functions are
thread-safe unless stated otherwise, and I couldn't find anything in the
specification of printf that it isn't thread-safe.

> (although we are talking
> cthreads which are not part of POSIX either) thus it is always is a good idea
> to not rely on printf being thread safe.

In any way, the GNU system makes this guarantee. 

Thanks,
Marcus

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