On Wednesday 28 November 2001 04:29 pm, Aaron Bannert wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:21:21PM -0800, Doug MacEachern wrote:
> > i seem to recall mention of apr_uuid having thread issues, but couldn't
> > find anything in the STATUS file or archives. anyhoo, any thoughts on
> > solving the race condition here:
> >
> > srclib/apr/misc/unix/getuuid.c:
> >
> > static int uuid_state_seqnum;
> > static unsigned char uuid_state_node[NODE_LENGTH] = { 0 };
> > ...
> > static void init_state(void)
> > {
> > uuid_state_seqnum = true_random();
> > get_pseudo_node_identifier(uuid_state_node);
> > }
> >
> > APR_DECLARE(void) apr_uuid_get(apr_uuid_t *uuid)
> > {
> > ...
> > if (!uuid_state_node[0])
> > init_state();
>
> Would apr_thread_once help here, in addition to the normal mutex routines?
If you use apr_thread_once, you shouldn't need any mutexes, and yeah,
it should solve this bug.
Ryan
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