| From: | Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs(dot)nl> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 21:55:11 |
| Message-ID: | 20030908215511.GI88340@nexus.ninth-circle.org |
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-On [20030908 23:52], Peter Eisentraut (peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net) wrote:
>Why would FreeBSD have a "library of thread-safe libc functions" (libc_r)
>if the functions weren't thread-safe? I think the test is faulty.
Having libc_r is not a guarantee that all functions of libc are
represented in that library as thread-safe functions.
gethostbyname_r() is a notable reentrant function which is absent in
FreeBSD.
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