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| author | Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com> | 2015-01-31 14:02:53 -0800 |
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| committer | Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com> | 2015-01-31 14:02:53 -0800 |
| commit | 711bf98ae12cc2ba788595bbaf16c32e3fa22204 (patch) | |
| tree | c8af23e06dd4815abc0b20d1d3094b318e15e449 | |
| parent | 6ee9556f2fea231303a488f07a8b0e0a9f552dc4 (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-711bf98ae12cc2ba788595bbaf16c32e3fa22204.tar.gz | |
Document thread unsafe usage of strerror() in PPS thread.
strerror_r() is not a portable replacement and has its own problems.
| -rw-r--r-- | ppsthread.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ppsthread.c b/ppsthread.c index 1f47db2c..8a1da980 100644 --- a/ppsthread.c +++ b/ppsthread.c @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ * ppsthread.c - manage PPS watcher threads * * If you are not good at threads do not touch this file! + * For example: errno is thread safe; strerror() is not. + * + * FIXME: find a portable and thread safe replacement for strerror(). * * It helps to know that there are two PPS measurement methods in * play. One is defined by RFC2783 and typically implemented in the |