[tz] thread-safe localtime

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Fri Mar 21 16:02:06 UTC 2014


On Mar 21,  7:37am, eggert at cs.ucla.edu (Paul Eggert) wrote:
-- Subject: thread-safe localtime

| [changing the subject line]
| 
| Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > Most of the world is running on multicore processors who want a tzlib
| > that is thread safe, and does not require mutexes to work. Can we move
| > in that direction please?
| 
| We could add that to our list of things to do.  Is a public-domain 
| implementation available?

The NetBSD one (using the timezone_t stuff I proposed years ago), except
for gmtime() which I have not fixed yet.

christos



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