[alsa-devel] [PATCH] Use thread-safe locale functions

Clemens Ladisch clemens at ladisch.de
Tue Apr 13 17:19:50 CEST 2010


Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> setlocale() is not thread-safe. It can actually trigger a crash if
> another thread uses locale informations at the same time in the process.
> Library code should use POSIX newlocale/duplocale/uselocale/freelocale
> instead.

I don't think these functions are available in small embedded C
libraries like dietlibc.


Regards,
Clemens


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