thread-safety definition

[David Abrahams]

Mathieu Lacage <Mathieu.Lacage at sophia.inria.fr> writes:

> hi all,
>
> It looks like what everyone is trying to achieve here is a way for C++
> authors to write thread-safe libraries. 

I think you missed something, or maybe the main thing.  C++ authors
can already write thread-safe libraries.

What I'm trying to achieve is to allow existing thread-safe library
code that wasn't written with POSIX cancellations in mind to be used
easily in a POSIX environment.

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Dave Abrahams
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