Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: readdir_r considered harmful

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper () gmail com>]

On 11/6/05, Casper.Dik () sun com <Casper.Dik () sun com> wrote:
> I don't see how that is relevant; the typical use of readdir() is as follows:
>
>         DIR *dirp = opendir(name);
>
>         while ((dent = readdir(dirp)) != NULL) {
>                 ...
>         }
>
>         closedir(dirp);
>
> Nothing other threads do with readdir() on different dirp's will influence
> what "dent" points to.

The issue is multiple threads using the same DIR.