Re: FreeBSD/i386 thread test

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai" <asmodai(at)wxs(dot)nl>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD/i386 thread test
Date: 2003-09-08 16:50:18
Message-ID: 200309081650.h88GoIN00773@candle.pha.pa.us
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Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> -On [20030908 06:32], Bruce Momjian (pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> >> Your gethostbyname() is _not_ thread-safe
> >> Your getpwuid() is _not_ thread-safe
> >> Your functions are _not_ all thread-safe
> >
> >Interesting. Do you have all the *_r files listed in thread.c? I sure
> >hope so. I assume you used the template thread compile flags for this
> >test.
>
> Both gethostbyname() and getpwuid() have no _r equivalents on
> FreeBSD-STABLE, ergo no thread-safe functions of these.

So you don't have all the *_r functions, and your non-*_r functions
aren't thread-safe. Should we disable theading on FreeBSD? Seems so.

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