Re: [Log4cpp-devel] A note regarding Shibboleth use of log4cpp

[Konstantin L. <Kon...@ma...>]

Hello, Scott!
You wrote to <log...@li...> on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 
23:28:11 -0400:

 SC> A long time back, pre-2004 certainly, we realized that log4cpp was
 SC> extremely broken under even rudimentary threaded conditions. I traced
 SC> this problem to two main sources:

 SC> - use of the non-threadsafe localtime function

    Fixed in my local copy.

 SC> - a broken autotools script that failed to set the proper flags on
 SC> Solaris and other platforms

     Waiting patch that fix this issue from Russ Allbery.

 SC> (To my knowledge, the NDC class was always threadsafe (it uses
 SC> thread-local-storage), in contrast to some recent comments here. I
 SC> can't explain that, but I think the concerns there are wrong.)

    You are right :) My previuos investigation was wrong. I have reviewed 
one more time NDC and PThread code and now realize that everything is OK 
with it.

With best regards, Konstantin Litvinenko.