Opened 12 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 6 years ago

#4889 closed Bugs (fixed)

path locale-related functions are not thread-safe

Reported by: Andrey Semashev Owned by: Beman Dawes
Milestone: To Be Determined Component: filesystem
Version: Boost 1.45.0 Severity: Problem
Keywords: Cc: raad@…

Description

Boost.Filesystem v.3 keeps the locale used by path objects in a function-local static object (see path_locale function in path.cpp). If multiple threads use path methods that involve locale (such as string(), wstring(), converting constructors or assignment from strings), the code may use a not yet constructed locale object or leak the locale. The locale object must be protected with call_once or similar technique.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Beman Dawes, 11 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [76303]) Fix #4889, #6320, Locale codecvt_facet not thread safe on Windows. Move Windows, Mac OS X, locale and codecvt facet back to namespace scope. POSIX except OS X uses local static initialization (IE lazy) to ensure exceptions are catchable if environmental variables are misconfigured and to avoid use of locale("") if not actually used.

comment:2 by raad@…, 6 years ago

Cc: raad@… added
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