Re: [libvirt] PATCH: 15/25: Prohibit non-threadsafe POSIX apis

There are a huge list of functions in POSIX which are not safe to use from multiple threads currently. I generated the list by looking at all libc symbol exports for variants which have a parallel _r symbol. nm -D --defined-only /lib/libc.so.6 \ | grep '_r$' \ | awk '{print $3}' \ | grep -v __ \ | grep -v qsort \ | grep -v readdir \ | sort \ | uniq \ | sed -e 's/_r//' The qsort one is a red herring, since you only need qsort_r if you need to pass a extra 'void * opaque' data blob to your sort function - we don't, so don't need qsort_r. The readdir one is also unneccessary, since reading from a single DIR* is safe from a single thread. readdir_r is also horrific http://womble.decadentplace.org.uk/readdir_r-advisory.html This patch adds a 'make sc_prohibit_nonrentrant' rule to the 'syntax-check' for these forbidden functions.