| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Unixware Patch (Was: Re: Beta2 Tag'd and Bundled ...) |
| Date: | 2003-08-30 04:51:01 |
| Message-ID: | 200308300451.h7U4p1I26068@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > Yes, and that is the complex part because _some_ non-*_r functions are
> > thread-safe, and some are not. I have to determine if we have other
> > such platforms before I figure out how to fix it in the cleanest way.
> >
> > In most platforms that are like this, I think, they have all the *_r
> > functions even if all of them are not required.
> well, this is not true on FreeBSD.
>
> it does NOT have gethostbyname_r (on 5.1-CURRENT as of last nite).
>
> It does have getpwuid_r and strerror_r.
Yes, but it doesn't require those *_r functions. It uses a separate
library. It has them around only for compatibility, or so I am told.
Seems netbsd also needs them, but it seems it has them all.
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