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Date:      Wed, 2 May 2007 20:45:50 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, alfred@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall main.c
Message-ID:  <20070502164550.GA96240@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20070502154928.GB73631@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:49:28AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> From your arguments I think this change makes sense.  It's probably
> worth documenting the obviously problems of using this API such as races
> if used in threaded programs.

Just for note - POSIX says:

"All functions defined by this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-200x shall be=20
thread-safe, except that the following functions need not be thread-safe."

and in the provided list all *env(3) functions are.

--=20
http://ache.pp.ru/

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