--On Monday, September 01, 2003 13:11:25 -0400 Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Larry Rosenman wrote:right, getpwuid is not threadsafe, so we use the provided getpwuid_r.
--On Monday, September 01, 2003 12:35:43 -0400 Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Um. I don't think that's true. I mean, in theory it's true, but in >> practice why would an OS have some *_r but have only non-thread-safe >> versions of others? > > Oh, interesting. So you are saying that if the OS supports threads, > then we use the *_r if they have them, and assume the non *_r functions > are already thread-safe if they don't. Interesting. > > That seems to be what we have on Unixware, and on BSD/OS I have some > *_r functions but not others, but they are all threadsafe, so your plan > works there too. UnixWare's Kernel is threaded, and I assume anything in libc is threadsafe unless told otherwise.
What? You said Unixware needs getpwuid_r. And this has nothing to do with whether the kernel is threaded.
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