Re: [giflib-devel] [Patch] strtok() -> strtok_r()

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

Ed Schouten <ed...@nu...>:
> While trying to build giflib on CloudABI (https://nuxi.nl/), I noticed
> that giflib uses the strtok() function in a couple of places. The use
> of strtok() is heavily discouraged, as it is not thread-safe. This
> potentially makes it harder to use giflib in multi-threaded programs.

Thanks.  I think the reasomn this hasn't been caufgr before is that that is
a rather obscure corner of the API.  Might be nobody has used it since the
1990s.
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