Re: Unixware Patch (Was: Re: Beta2 Tag'd and Bundled ...)

--On Monday, September 01, 2003 13:11:25 -0400 Bruce Momjian
<pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>
>>
>> --On Monday, September 01, 2003 12:35:43 -0400 Bruce Momjian
>> <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >> Um. I don't think that's true. I mean, in theory it's true, but in
>> >> practice why would an OS have some *_r but have only non-thread-safe
>> >> versions of others?
>> >
>> > Oh, interesting. So you are saying that if the OS supports threads,
>> > then we use the *_r if they have them, and assume the non *_r functions
>> > are already thread-safe if they don't. Interesting.
>> >
>> > That seems to be what we have on Unixware, and on BSD/OS I have some
>> > *_r functions but not others, but they are all threadsafe, so your plan
>> > works there too.
>> UnixWare's Kernel is threaded, and I assume anything in libc is
>> threadsafe unless
>> told otherwise.
>
> What? You said Unixware needs getpwuid_r. And this has nothing to do
> with whether the kernel is threaded.
right, getpwuid is not threadsafe, so we use the provided getpwuid_r.

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