[Rd] Are Rprintf and REprintf thread-safe?

[luke-tierney at uiowa.edu]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Winston Chang wrote:

> Is it safe to call Rprintf and REprintf from a background thread? I'm
> working on a package that makes calls to fprintf(stderr, ...) on a
> background thread when errors happen, but when I run R CMD check, it
> says:
>
>  Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor
>  write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor the system RNG.
>
> Is it safe to replace these calls with REprintf()?

Only if you enjoy race conditions or segfaults.

Rprintf and REprintf are not thread-safe.

Best,

luke


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