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Subject: Re: syslog() reentrant when compiling with -pthread?
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you probably want  Threads@freebsd.org

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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