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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: ideas from netbsd
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 18:04:47 -0800 (PST)
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> 
> > Umm, NetBSD's library is *NOT* thread safe at this stage of the game.
> > I watch the commit list, an no thread changes have been made to the
> > library in the last 5 months.
> 
> I've been talking once or twice (ie: not in good contact) with the
> JAVA porter for NetBSD, and he indicated changes had been made.  I
> don't know how closely their -current echoes their intended Nov 17th
> release code base... maybe not very closely at all.
> 

there are thread-safe libc mods being worked up at the moment
for FreeBSD The first rounds will be trickling in soon for commit

they will initially be #ifdef _THREAD_SAFE_ guarded,
and used to make a libc_r, but they willprobably be merged whe they are
proven.