On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Donald Doane wrote: > The following comment is from apr_lib.h: > > * apr_vformatter does not call out to any other code, it is entirely > * self-contained. This allows the callers to do things which are > * otherwise "unsafe". For example, apr_psprintf uses the "scratch" > * space at the unallocated end of a block, and doesn't actually > * complete the allocation until apr_vformatter returns. apr_psprintf > * would be completely broken if apr_vformatter were to call anything > * that used a apr_pool_t. Similarly http_bprintf() uses the "scratch" > * space at the end of its output buffer, and doesn't actually note > * that the space is in use until it either has to flush the buffer > * or until apr_vformatter returns.
That seems to say to me that apr_psprintf is in fact threadsafe after all. :-) --Cliff
