Subj : Re: thread safe of time()
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Tue Feb 22 2005 11:08 pm


"Patrick TJ McPhee" <ptjm@interlog.com> wrote in message 
news:382l45F5ktejcU1@uni-berlin.de...
> In article <ICC1zE.LpF@campus-news-reading.utoronto.ca>,
> Da Wang  <DaWangEE@THEgoogleMAIL.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> %   I am wondering whether the statement "time(&rawtime)" is thread safe
> % or not.
>
> It is.

    Assuming, of course, that no other thread might try to access 'rawtime' 
while you're inside the call to 'time'. ;)

    DS

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