Thread-safeness in cygwin32

Michael Anderson mka@redes.int.com.mx
Fri Nov 21 06:32:00 GMT 1997


Geoffrey Noer wrote:
 
> Unfortunately it (B18) is not thread-safe and b19 won't be either when
> it comes out.  Newlib does make some attempts at minimizing race conditions
> but it isn't thread-safe.  The rest of the code in cygwin.dll from the
> winsup directory would also need a lot of reworking.  Sorry...  :-(

Thanks Geoffrey for confirming this. The other part of my question is
about the process-safeness of B18. Can one process corrupt another
through the common use of cygwin.dll or otherwise?

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Mike Anderson
mka@redes.int.com.mx
Guanajuato, GTO, Mexico
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