Re: Lua standard library - thread-unsafety

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> The question is would the effort ALREADY MADE to Lua 5.2 to make
> os.date() re-entrant when possible (e.g. on POSIX systems) be ported
> back to Lua 5.1 officially? It doesn't really matter whether it will
> be reflected on the bug list or not. It matters whether the Lua 5.1
> users may rely on the next bug fixing version to benefit from it or
> should handle this case themselves.

It may be backported to 5.1, but there may not be a next bug
fixing version soon, as there are no significant bugs to fix (yet).

-- Roberto