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Make crypt(3) thread-safe by utilizing thread-local storage.
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Authored by delphij on Feb 5 2025, 6:14 AM.
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Summary

The crypt(3) interface is a wrapper around crypt_r(3) where a global
static storage is passed as data. Modernize the interface by
passing a thread-local storage instead so it is thread-safe.

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kyua test lib/libcrypt

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delphij created this revision.

It's still not thread-safe if you pass the return value to another thread, but perhaps that's outside the scope