Re: [boost] thread safety in boost date time

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 11:34:15 +0200, Yitzhak Sapir wrote

Boost date_time apparently has a thread safety problem in linux in that it calls localtime() in boost/date_time/time_clock.hpp and related functions rather than localtime_r() and related functions. This is even though BOOST_HAS_PTHREADS is defined by configure in user.hpp.

That's true -- date_time doesn't do anything to ensure thread safety. I'm a little reluctant to protect these functions since the user can determine better if they need to take the associated performance hit. Of course this needs to be documented, which it isn't now. Thoughts? Jeff