--On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:35:25 -0400 Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Larry Rosenman wrote:It won't prove anything on MY box, as it is a UNIPROCESSOR, so the threads won't be dispatched at the same time.
--On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:20:14 -0400 Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> Lee Kindness writes: >> >> > You don't... and you simply shouldn't care. If there is a_r version >> > available then we should use it - even if the plain version is >> > "safe". >> >> The problem with this is that the automatic determination (in >> configure) whether there is a xxx_r() version is, in general, >> fragile. We cannot rely on configure saying that xxx_r() doesn't >> exist, so the plain xxx() should be good enough. Else, we'd be >> shipping claimed-to-be-thread-safe libraries that might trigger bugs >> that will be hard to track down. >> >> I don't see any other solution than keeping a database of NEED_XXX_R >> for each platform and then requiring these functions to show up >> before we declare a library to be thread-safe. So far we're only >> dealing with three functions, to it should be doable. > > Right. We can't assume because a *_r function is missing that the > normal function is thread-safe. So, given that UnixWare doesn't have gethostbyname_r and strerror_r, but does have getpwuid_r, will y'all declare that UnixWare has thread-safety?
My vote is YES.
I am inclined to think yes. It would prevent uglification of the code by not having to special-case Unixware.
However, I was able to read the libc sources to confirm thread-safety. Because you can not see the source, would you try a threaded program and see if calls to getpwuid from different threads return different pointer values?
It's ok to assume thread-safety, as the SCO developer (Kean Johnston) asked the threads guys, and he said that the libc stuff is thread-safe so they don't have to have 2 different versions in libc.
LER
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