Going forward with NTS

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> > In fact, it's not strictly speeking something we need to fix until we're
> > worrieed about using a C library other than glibc. It does some weird things
> > under the hood to make stdio operations thread-safe. 
> 
> msyslog is mostly not stdio so that won't help much.

I see the write-to-file code using fprintf(3).

That code is thread-locked. I found this out the hard way a couple years
ago; it was causing severe performance drag in cvs-fast-export.
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