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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: misc/23323: TZ implementation: changes in TZ don't make effect on running process
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The following reply was made to PR misc/23323; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: misc/23323: TZ implementation: changes in TZ don't make effect on running process
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:54:52 -0500 (EST)

 <<On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 03:38:20 -0800 (PST), simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua said:
 
 > If some process calls one of functions which operates with local time,
 > then all other calls of such functions will use time zone got in first
 > call.
 
 This is by design, and probably won't be fixed until the C standard is
 amended or updated to specify a thread-safe interface to the timezone
 library routines.  It's impossible to predict what the people working
 on this issue will come up with (if they ever do).
 
 -GAWollman
 
 


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