> Why are we afraid to add new APIs that make some damn sense? Speak for yourself. I implemented a Standard C library which guarded the environment, and vario

> Why are we afraid to add new APIs that make some damn sense? Speak for yourself. I implemented a Standard C library which guarded the environment, and various other global variables that the language requires that the library have, with mutexes. I did this in the early 1990s. I am far from alone, as far as C library implementors go. Your "we" is actually a small number of people.