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   Message 472 of 3,371   
   Rich Walsh to All   
   Re: Thread safety in FF/TB/MOZ and the t   
   17 Aug 11 23:41:18   
   
   OYWRL[M=;52:bASgo@Lgii0NjSJ   
      
   On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:49:31 UTC, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:   
      
   > > 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?   
      
   The zip contains Steve Levine's explanation of the problem.  You'll find it   
   at the top of 'tcpip32_mtsafe-malloc-patch-2011-08-16.pat'.   
      
      
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