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		gumby on Feb 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Curious lack of sprintf scaling Someone could allow users to change locale via an application's interface.

rocqua on Feb 26, 2022 [–]

What about that requires a lock? To prevent reading a half destroyed object?

Why not a write lock that allows multiple concurrent readers?

gumby on Feb 26, 2022 | [–]

The whole thing is a botch. Sadly, his happens time to time in many standards. More in software than hardware standards in my experience — I wonder why.

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