On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, "lo-tek" <@pb1.pair.com cshmoove wrote:
> suppose i have a function which returns a pointer to a variable in thread
> local storage
>
> foo_t *get_global_foo()
> {
> TSRMLS_FETCH();
> return (foo_t *)BAR_G(foo);
> }
>
> void fubar()
> {
> foo_t *foo = get_global_foo();
> bar( foo ); /* possible multi-thread access */
> }
>
> is fubar then thread safe, or is TSRMLS_FETCH() (or TSRMLS_C etc) needed in
> each function needing serialized access to TLS data ?
>
Well, your just tossing around pointers (your returning a pointer to
an address in the global structure which is assigned to foo, which
you then pass to bar). So thread safety should *not* be affected.
-Sterling
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