[Splashy-devel] Spurious comments in splashy_functions.c

[John Hughes]

Luis Mondesi wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:52 PM, John Hughes <john at calva.com> wrote:
>   
>>       /* *_unlocked are a GNU extension: makes function fread thread safe */
>>
>>  which is the opposite of the truth.  As their name implies the _unlocked
>>  functions are thread-unsafe!
>>     
> I'll have to dig into this to see if only one thread is actually
> writing to this handle.
>   
Well in this case (search_pattern) it's safe as the FILE* is local to a 
function and never passed to another function.   I'd guess that's the 
case for all the uses of FILE* in splashy, but I haven't checked.