On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:50:45PM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: > In util.c the routines Perl_safesysmalloc and friends are updating a > linked list. > > There does not seem to be any protection from a different thread also > updating the same linked list at the same time, especially on a > multi-processor system.
They are updating a per-thread linked list, so I think it's thread-safe. -- The optimist believes that he lives in the best of all possible worlds. As does the pessimist.
