Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:17:53 -0400 From: Robert Dormer <rdormer@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog() reentrant when compiling with -pthread? Message-ID: <3174add60410061017599f991e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <FFEC3743-17A3-11D9-BB63-0003938168B2@msys.ch> References: <FFEC3743-17A3-11D9-BB63-0003938168B2@msys.ch>
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For what it's worth, I've used syslog to the *console* before, in a multithreaded network daemon. No problems encountered. On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:28:32 +0200, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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