Re:Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It
by agevag on Monday November 20, 2023 @05:28AM
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I'm not sure I understand the question.
If you are writing, say, a GUI application, and use GTK, GTK may use getenv (without your mutexes, of course) at the same time you call setenv in another thread, potentially crashing your entire application if you are unlucky.
If you are writing, say, a GUI application, and use GTK, GTK may use getenv (without your mutexes, of course) at the same time you call setenv in another thread, potentially crashing your entire application if you are unlucky.