Linux System Programming note 1

1.

#include  <string.h>

char * strerror(int errnum);

AND

#include <string.h>

int strerror_r(int errnum, char *buf, size_t len);

former:not thread-safe

latter:thread-safe

2.

In single-threaded programs, errno is a global variable.

In multithreaded programs, however, errno is stored per-thread, and is thus thread-safe.