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Linux command: get glibc Thread Safe or Non-Thread Safe version

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I have to find out if my glibc version is thread safe or not. How do I do that?

ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.5
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

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But it doesn't tell me if it's thread safe or not. I have to install a PHP debugger from Nusphere which states:

+===============+===========+=====================+============================+=============+==========+
| Operating     | Bitness   | Requirements        | Archive or                 | Directory   | Comments |
| system        | and CPU   |                     | Location                   | inside      |          |
+---------------+-----------+---------------------+----------------------------+-------------+----------+
| Linux         | x86, 32   | glibc >= 2.3        | dbg-6.1.4-Linux.tar.gz     | x86         |          |
| Linux         | x86, 64   | glibc >= 2.3        | dbg-6.1.4-Linux.tar.gz     | x86_64      | 7        |
| Linux         | arm, 32   | glibc >= 2.15       | dbg-6.1.4-Linux.tar.gz     | armv5       | 4        |
| Linux         | x86, 32   | TS glibc >= 2.3     | dbg-6.1.4-Linux.tar.gz     | x86_TS      |          |
| Linux         | x86, 64   | TS glibc >= 2.3     | dbg-6.1.4-Linux.tar.gz     | x86_64_TS   | 7        |
| Linux         | arm, 32   | TS glibc >= 2.15    | dbg-6.1.4-Linux.tar.gz     | armv5_TS    | 4

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Sorry the layout looks messy and hard to read so I'm just uploading the text file and snapshot.
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readme.txt

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Victor Kimura

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@farzanj, that's great. Thank you! But how do I know if that glibc is non thread safe or thread safe?

I think it's non thread safe.

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I use Nusphere PHP IDE (http://nusphere.com). For remote debugging they have their own debug-php.so module for remote debugging. Download the readme.txt file from my initial post thread. I think it's the non-thread that I have to install.

Just wondering what the linux command is for finding out if the glibc is the thread safe or no thread safe.

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Ok, thanks, frazanj. =)