For what it's worth, I've used syslog to the *console* before, in a multithreaded network daemon. No problems encountered.
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:28:32 +0200, Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I am a long time Unix developer but new with FreeBSD. I worked the last > years mostly with OpenBSD. First I am overwhelmed by the number of > mailing lists you guys provide. Second I am not sure if I picked the > right one ;-) So please direct me to the right place if this list is > only for discussion of FreeBSD system development... > > My question regarding thread-safeness of syslog(): On OpenBSD I used > syslog_r() to do thread safe logging (the software in question is a > sendmail milter, which runs multithreaded). FreeBSD does not have > these functions, but the cc man page states that compiling with > "-pthread" links in the thread safe libc_r library instead of libc. As > syslog() seems to part of libc on FreeBSD, is it safe to assume that > syslog() is indeed thread safe on FreeBSD when compiling with the > -pthread switch? > > Thanks, > Marc Balmer > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
