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[Tim Roberts]

Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

>> Yeah, but then we're down to file descriptors, C library locales and such as the 
>> remaining problems.
>
>Don't forget errno! Every CRT might have its own errno thread local. I
>don't know how its handled on Windows but I suspect it suffers from the
>same problem.

No.  The multi-thread-aware CRT in Visual C++ (which is the only option
since VS2008) puts errno in thread-local storage, so it's shared by all
CRTs.
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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.