> I'm strongly against this. I don't see the advantage of doing so > and I find it unintuitive. A process is a process and a thread > is a thread. The umask is a process-specific setting, why make > it thread-specfic, then? (besides the obvious implementation > problems)
Agreed. Posix chdir is not thread-safe either and everyone lives with it. Time and again some new guy has the idea of a local chdir and it's shot down; for example see Sun bug 4045688. There are some nonstandard syscalls on Linux & Solaris for doing so, but note the operative word. In short, +1. Jim _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
