Fix gai_strerror() thread-safety on Windows. Commit 5579388d removed code that supplied a fallback implementation of getaddrinfo(), which was dead code on modern systems. One tiny piece of the removed code was still doing something useful on Windows, though: that OS's own gai_strerror()/gai_strerrorA() function returns a pointer to a static buffer that it overwrites each time, so it's not thread-safe. In rare circumstances, a multi-threaded client program could get an incorrect or corrupted error message.
Restore the replacement gai_strerror() function, though now that it's only for Windows we can put it into a win32-specific file and cut it down to the errors that Windows documents. The error messages here are taken from FreeBSD, because Windows' own messages seemed too verbose. Back-patch to 16. Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota....@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKz%2BF9d2PTiXwfYV7qJw%2BWg2jzACgSDgPizUw7UG%3Di58A%40mail.gmail.com Branch ------ REL_16_STABLE Details ------- https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0460e4ecc0fa532468331a4b71ad0fbe8ff1a416 Modified Files -------------- configure | 6 +++++ configure.ac | 1 + src/include/port/win32/sys/socket.h | 8 +++++++ src/port/meson.build | 1 + src/port/win32gai_strerror.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm | 1 + 6 files changed, 62 insertions(+)