Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > After hearing that FreeBSD wasn't thread safe, I posted to the FreeBSD > lists to find out what is up ... > > FreeBSD 5.x has a getpwuid_r function that should be used ... and, the > word I got from one of the developers was that getaddrinfo(3) should be > used instead of gethostbyname ... > > Now, getpwuid_r is still not available in 4.x, so we still will fail over > there, and I've seen nothing to indicate that it will be MFCd down, but > getaddrinfo is available in both ...
OK, I have adjusted the thread test program so it has its own Makefile and is now in src/tools/thread. I also added code so gethostbyname is tested only if getaddrinfo isn't present. Would people please retest their operating sysystems using this program? I think we had a few OS's that failed the test originally because gethostbyname wasn't thread-safe, and that is probably not tested anymore on that OS. -- 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 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
