The change was made because a BSD/OS developer said flockfile was POSIX, and pointed to something that suggested NetBSD supports it. I will back out the change. We really don't need fseeko/ftello to be thread safe anyway.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Giles Lean wrote: > > Hi Bruce, > > The change in revision 1.9 of src/port/fseeko.c to include <pthread.h> > and use flockfile() and funlockfile() on NetBSD causes the file not to > compile: > > 1. there is no <pthread.h> on any NetBSD release (yet) > > 2. flockfile() and funlockfile() appear in <stdio.h> commented > out by #if 0 ... #endif and are not implemented. > > I'm not sure if I led you astray on the presence of these functions > on NetBSD. My appologies if I did; a grep of /usr/include/*.h is > misleading. Whatever POSIX extension they're part of is not yet > implemented on NetBSD. > > The fix is to revert to revision 1.8. I could send you a diff, but > it's pretty boring. :-) > > Regards, > > Giles > > > > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
