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List:       opensolaris-i18n-discuss
Subject:    Re: [i18n-discuss] mutex to make concurrent |setlocale()| and
From:       Ienup Sung <Ienup.Sung () Sun ! COM>
Date:       2008-08-28 17:13:42
Message-ID: 48B6DCC6.7010204 () Sun ! COM
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Hello Roland,

You are correct that the current I18N API are MT-safe with exception
currently. As far as I know, we don't have any plan except the work related
to the new version of Single Unix Specification which is coming in in my
understanding.

I cc'd Kenjiro and Robbin from ON I18N group explicitly in this discussion.

Ienup

Roland Mainz wrote at 08/27/08 20:11:
> Hi!
> 
> ----
> 
> AFAIK it's not safe right now to change the current locale in one thread
> using |setlocale()| while other threads use any of the wide-char APIs...
> did anyone thought about fixing this yet, for example by protecting the
> matching structures with a r/w-mutex (e.g. multiple concurrent readers
> can read the data while writes (= |setlocale()) are only allowed for a
> single thread) ?
> 
> ----
> 
> Bye,
> Roland
> 
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