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Old 01-05-2008, 03:22 AM
Paul Pluzhnikov
 
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Default Re: strerror thread safe version

vlada1703@yahoo.com (Vlada) writes:

> I paid a big price debugging core dumps to figure out that AIX
> strerror is not thread safe (as it is on Solaris and HPUX).


IBM's documentation page for strerror() says at the beginning:

Attention: Do not use the strerror subroutine in a multithreaded
environment.

> Does anyone have any suggestion how to replace strerror() with some
> code that is thread safe?


Sure, "man strerror_r"

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