Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Benjamin Sugars]

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Chris Stith wrote:

> In a completely Open Source world, we wouldn't have to worry, as
> (almost) everything would be rebuilt around the new version of the
> library anyway.

You've lost me.  We want perl to build on both the old and the new.

> If you serialize the calls, then anything that happens inside the
> binary library doesn't happen at the same time between threads.
> Period. If you wait until one call to localtime() has returned
> before making another, for example, then the two calls cannot
> possibly interfere with one another.

I do not think this is true.  The first call can return a pointer to
static data.  Subsequent threads can clobber this data.

Cheers,
-Ben

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