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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Philip Yarra <philip(at)utiba(dot)com>, ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Unixware Patch (Was: Re: Beta2 Tag'd and Bundled ...)
Date: 2003-09-10 04:12:22
Message-ID: 200309100412.h8A4CMN13190@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tripple-yuck. :-)
>
> It doesn't seem to me that we should take on the job of providing
> thread-safe implementations of basic libc functions. If a particular
> OS cannot manage to offer that functionality, then we should mark it
> not-thread-safe and move on. Persons unhappy with this labeling must
> take it up with their OS developers, not us.

Yep, that is one clear option. It would certainly make my job easier.

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