readdir_r() deprecated?
readdir_r() deprecated?
Posted Aug 5, 2016 23:52 UTC (Fri) by lsl (subscriber, #86508)In reply to: readdir_r() deprecated? by ballombe
Parent article: The GNU C Library version 2.24 is now available
Why would you need TLS when readdir takes an opaque context argument anyway?
Posted Aug 9, 2016 15:26 UTC (Tue)
by vapier (guest, #15768)
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readdir_r() deprecated?
it doesn't use TLS (ignoring of course errno). thread safety is achieved by having a lock embedded in the opaque DIR structure, and then readdir grabs/releases that lock.