Thread-safety issue in KConfig / KStandardDirs ?

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Sat Apr 24 10:09:49 BST 2010


Em Sábado 24. Abril 2010, às 10.53.27, Oswald Buddenhagen escreveu:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 09:36:45PM -0300, Sandro Andrade wrote:
> > KConfig / KStandardDirs are thread-safe ?
> 
> kstandarddirs' thread-safety is documented.
> kconfig is most definitely not thread-safe, but it is re-entrant. you
> may get lucky with the const methods just like in kstddirs.

Besides, the crash was in malloc. Malloc is thread-safe.

Unless, of course, you've already done memory smashing and destroyed malloc 
control data.

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