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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:55:30 -0400, Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> said:

> Why not do something like the rpc code does?  Check if threaded, if
> so cons up a thread specific key otherwise use a global.

The Standard does not appear to say whether qsort() is reentrant, but
I believe that it ought to be.  fts() was clearly intended to be
reentrant.  (I don't know what good it would do, but let's not make
things worse than they already are, hey?)

-GAWollman


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