libsmbclient - Thread Saftey

[Olaf Frączyk]

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 10:43 -0400, Derrell Lipman wrote:

> >
> > froggy> cat libsmbclient.report
> > atof - convert string to double-precision number
> >    MT-Level: MT-Safe as  long  as setlocale(3C) is not
> >    called to change the locale.
> >
> 
> How in the world can atof() be non-thread-safe?  Why would locale have
> anything to do with it?  It returns a double and I can't think of any reason
> why it would need to use any non-thread-safe features...???  Is strtod()
> deemed to be more thread safe?
The character that separates the integer part from the fractional part
can vary depending on locale. Eg. in en_US it is ".", in pl_PL it is
",".

Regards,

Olaf
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Olaf Frączyk <olaf at cbk.poznan.pl>