Evan Jones

Aubrey Tatarowicz, Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones , and Samuel Madden. Lookup Tables: Fine-Grained Partitioning for Distributed Databases . In ICDE , Washington, DC, USA, Apr. 2012. ( pdf )

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Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It

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You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those functions modify global state, and can cause other threads calling getenv() to crash. This also causes crashes in other languages that use those C standard library functions, such as Go's os.Setenv ( Go issue ) and Rust's…