[boost] Re: thread safety in boost date time

From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-13 12:31:08

Jeff Garland wrote:
>>However, the fact remains that the date_time library
>>uses non-thread safe functions in a way that cannot be
>>controlled by the user.  
>>...snip details...
> 
> 
> Yes, as I said earlier it's on the todo list for 1.33.  BTW, worst case is
> that we could make our own localtime_r function in the clock classes.

I'm not sure about this, but I think that the windows multi-threaded C 
libraries use thread specific storage for functions like 'localtime'. So 
on that platfrom, they're okay.