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|    Anton Ertl to Paul Rubin    |
|    Re: Numeric string output - conspicuousl    |
|    05 May 24 14:31:38    |
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Paul Rubin writes:   
   >anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:   
   >> man 7 attributes   
   >> it tells me that MT-Safe means "thread-safe", i.e., "safe to call in   
   >> the presence of other threads."   
   >   
   >Yes I saw that, but it isn't clear to me from that description that   
   >sprintf can safely be active in both threads at the same time.   
      
   What else would thread-safe or "multi-threading safe" mean?   
      
   - anton   
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