> A function which sets global process state is not thread safe? Why, I'm shocked; shocked and chagrined. This is a oversimplification. Windows has essentially

> A function which sets global process state is not thread safe? Why, I'm shocked; shocked and chagrined. This is a oversimplification. Windows has essentially the exact same API and it works just fine in multithreaded contexts. The issue here is unix allows the underlying pointer to be accessed, bypassing any possible thread-safe APIs.