Re: [boost] Re: thread safety in boost date time

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-13 13:31:58

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:31:08 +0000, Daniel James wrote
> 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.

My impresssion as well, although I haven't double checked...

Jeff