[FFmpeg-devel] parse_date using localtime etc.

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:11:05AM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> as it came out during a recent discussion, parse_date uses the
> non-thread-safe functions localtime and gmtime.
> This is not much of an issue currently, since libav* does not use that
> code path.
> However I still have a bad feeling about it, since libav* functions are
> expected to not have global side-effects and to be thread safe.
> The question is what to do about it.

use localtime_r()

besides it has to be mentiond that some libcs like microsofts according
to google provide a thread safe localtime() with thread local storeage.
And IMO having a thread safe libc in addition to a unsafe one would have
been nicer for posix instead of duplicating functions with differnt API.

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