On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 05:18 PM, Geoffrey F. Green wrote: > On 7/21/02 8:07 PM, "David Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "This is known and it is sadly because Apples libc does not contain a >> threadsafe localtime, the bug is entereted with apple but no reply >> yet!" >> >> So what are the chances that this will be fixed by a future 10.1 >> update or >> in Jaguar, Edward? > > I'm not Edward, and I probably know about 1/100th as much as he does > on this > topic, but in case he doesn't respond: > > <http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/unix.html> states that much of > FreeBSD > 4.4 has been backported to Darwin, so perhaps that includes a > threadsafe > localtime? In addition, the page notes that "Reentrant variants of > standard > functions in the C library, such as ‘strtok_r,’ help you port > thread-safe > versions of UNIX applications." Can't say if that's meaningful to this > discussion or not, but I thought I'd mention it because it sounds > relevant.
I think you are giving me too much credit, as I wasn't even aware of the thread-safe localtime bug (if you know the Radar number, I'd like to look it up). I'm not on the team that is in charge of Perl; I'm just an interested Perl user at Apple. If the thread-safe localtime bug is an important issue to you, I recommend you add your comments to the above mentioned Radar. The more visible this issue becomes, the higher priority it well get. Ed
