From: | Kurt Roeckx <Q(at)ping(dot)be> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Unixware Patch (Was: Re: Beta2 Tag'd and Bundled ...) |
Date: | 2003-08-31 18:15:43 |
Message-ID: | 20030831181543.GA19489@ping.be |
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:04:58PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Lee Kindness writes:
>
> > You don't... and you simply shouldn't care. If there is a_r version
> > available then we should use it - even if the plain version is "safe".
>
> The problem with this is that the automatic determination (in configure)
> whether there is a xxx_r() version is, in general, fragile. We cannot
> rely on configure saying that xxx_r() doesn't exist, so the plain xxx()
> should be good enough. Else, we'd be shipping claimed-to-be-thread-safe
> libraries that might trigger bugs that will be hard to track down.
I think you missed a part of his email. He says that if xxx_r()
isn't available, we should provide an xxx_r() ourself.
Kurt
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