[Splashy-devel] Spurious comments in splashy_functions.c
John Hughes
john at Calva.COM
Sat Mar 29 10:42:14 UTC 2008
Luis Mondesi wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:52 PM, John Hughes <john at calva.com> wrote:
>
>> /* *_unlocked are a GNU extension: makes function fread thread safe */
>>
>> which is the opposite of the truth. As their name implies the _unlocked
>> functions are thread-unsafe!
>>
> I'll have to dig into this to see if only one thread is actually
> writing to this handle.
>
Well in this case (search_pattern) it's safe as the FILE* is local to a
function and never passed to another function. I'd guess that's the
case for all the uses of FILE* in splashy, but I haven't checked.
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