[freetds] Using freetds in Windows

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Mon Jan 11 11:33:26 EST 2010


On Jan 11, 10:21am, jklowden at schemamania.org (jklowden at schemamania.org) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: [freetds] Using freetds in Windows

| > Another problem is thread safety. strerror is not thread safe, it
| > would be better to use strerror_r if available. Under Windows for C
| > errors there is _sys_nerrs and _sys_errlist.
| 
| Not exactly: 
| 
| http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/strerror.html
| 
| 	"The strerror() function need not be reentrant."
| 	
| Need not be, but may be.  I think Win32 strerror(3) is threadsafe. 

Even when doing i18n? 

christos



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