How to define threadsafe?

Question

Threadsafe is a term that is thrown around documentation, however there is seldom an explanation of what it means, especially in a language that is understandab

Answer 1

G'day,

A good place to start is to have a read of the POSIX paper on thread safety.

Edit: Just the first few paragraphs give you a quick overview of thread safety and re-entrant code.

HTH

cheers,