Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: localtime_r on Solaris

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 08:57:04AM -0500, Mark Doliner wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 11:17:31 +0200 (CEST), Bjoern Voigt wrote
> > Mark Doliner <ma...@ki...> wrote:
> > 
> > > Any reason we can't just use localtime instead of localtime_r?
> > 
> > localtime() is not multithreaded-safe, but localtime_r is. If two threads
> > in Gaim use localtime() nearly in the same time, this results in
> > conflicts. But I don't know, how multithreading is used in Gaim.

<snip>

> 
> But Gaim doesn't use threads, so I'm just going to change both of these to
> localtime.  (I changed the jabber localtime_r to localtime last night.)
> -Mark

will this affect our dns lookups? i doubt it will affect sounds, but 
both of these cause additional instances of gaim to show up in ps's 
output for a short period, though my grasp of the differences between 
threads and forks and so on is not what it should be, so maybe that's 
irrelevant to this.

luke