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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2021-03-07 02:21:49 +0100
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2021-03-07 11:01:57 +0100
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getusershell: Optimize stdio accesses when possible.
* lib/getusershell.c: Test GNULIB_GETUSERSHELL_SINGLE_THREAD instead of USE_UNLOCKED_IO. * modules/getusershell (Depends-on): Add unlocked-io-internal. * doc/multithread.texi: Document GNULIB_GETUSERSHELL_SINGLE_THREAD.
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@@ -274,4 +274,8 @@ You may define the C macro @code{GNULIB_WCHAR_SINGLE}, if all the programs in
your package are single-threaded and won't change the locale after it has
been initialized. This macro optimizes the functions @code{mbrtowc} and
@code{wcwidth}.
+@item
+You may define the C macro @code{GNULIB_GETUSERSHELL_SINGLE_THREAD}, if all the
+programs in your package invoke the functions @code{setusershell},
+@code{getusershell}, @code{endusershell} only from a single thread.
@end itemize