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   Message 468 of 3,371   
   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to All   
   Re: Thread safety in FF/TB/MOZ and the t   
   17 Aug 11 09:49:31   
   
   Thunderbird/5.0   
   mmer.misc,mozilla.dev.ports.os2   
   UTC)   
   .os2.misc:3582 comp.os.os2.programmer.misc:2314   
   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   > The patch is intended to make this dll multi-thread and SMP safe.  It   
   > adds no new code;  it simply redirects calls made to unsafe routines   
   > and routes them to safe versions that were already present in the dll.   
      
   Which functions?  And why is Mozilla/Thunderird/Firefox calling the    
   non-reentrant routines in parallel from a multithreaded program in the    
   first place?  Surely the latter is the bug to fix?   
      
   --- Internet Rex 2.31   
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