syslog() reentrant when compiling with -pthread?
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Wed Oct 6 10:35:26 PDT 2004
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Marc Balmer wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am a long time Unix developer but new with FreeBSD. I worked the
> last years mostly with OpenBSD. First I am overwhelmed by the number
> of mailing lists you guys provide. Second I am not sure if I picked
> the right one ;-) So please direct me to the right place if this list
> is only for discussion of FreeBSD system development...
>
> My question regarding thread-safeness of syslog(): On OpenBSD I used
> syslog_r() to do thread safe logging (the software in question is a
> sendmail milter, which runs multithreaded). FreeBSD does not have
> these functions, but the cc man page states that compiling with
> "-pthread" links in the thread safe libc_r library instead of libc.
> As syslog() seems to part of libc on FreeBSD, is it safe to assume
> that syslog() is indeed thread safe on FreeBSD when compiling with the
> -pthread switch?
>
> Thanks,
> Marc Balmer
>
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