On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 06:16:47PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> Package: libjpeg9
>> Version: 1:9a-2
>> Severity: minor
>>
>> As discussed on d-devel@l.d.o [*], it would be nice to remove the
>> getenv/putenv usage from the lib itself (move the functionalities to
>> the command lines). Quotes:
>
> But libraries do not have command lines ?

I meant to say, move the functionalities out of the library and within
the `libjpeg-progs` only, either using a specific function within the
library which is not part of the regular API, or some kind of
duplicate code within the example command line tools.

>> getenv is, yes, but it is not protected against concurrent calls to
>> setenv/putenv. So there are thread safety concerns here indeed.
>
> At least, libjpeg does not use setenv/putenv.

Correct, the putenv stuff was added somewhere in the -turbo fork.


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