FreeTDS Development Group

[ZIGLIO Frediano <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it>]

> 
> There just doesn't seem to be any way to safely change the 
> signal handler on
> the fly in a library function like this, without potentially causing
> undesired behavior in another thread.  In particular, all 
> pthread calls are
> off-limits in signal handlers, which makes it virtually 
> impossible to do
> anything about this.
> 
> I've decided to take another approach and provide a 
> completely different
> implementation of vasprintf() that will be used when thread safety is
> enabled.  Stay tuned for another patch later today.
> 

I think we should use Patrick Powell implementation of snprintf/vsnprintf. 
I tought about using pthread keys and other pthread stuff but other problem
raise (portability, complexity).

freddy77

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