[tz] Thread-safe localtime(3) (was Re: Reading binary files)
Alan Barrett
apb at cequrux.com
Wed Nov 2 20:20:07 UTC 2011
On Wed, 02 Nov 2011, Bennett Todd wrote:
> That sounds all superb, and excellent. The one question I'd ask
> is, would it be practical and reasonable to lose the _z and _rz
> suffixes, and make the timezone arg an optional extra arg to
> localtime/mktine, with varargs?
There's a long history of using "_r" a suffix for "re-entrant" or
"thread safe" versions of functions. Using "_z" for functions
that take an explicit timezone argument is new, but seems to fit
the established pattern.
varargs functions need a way of knowing whether or not more
arguments are present. How would you do that?
--apb (Alan Barrett)
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