--On Monday, September 01, 2003 14:24:14 -0300 "Marc G. Fournier"
<scrappy@hub.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > --On Monday, September 01, 2003 12:35:43 -0400 Bruce Momjian
>> > <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> 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.
>
> Note that Larry said "unless told otherwise", so I'm guessing that there
> is somewhere in Unixware taht states that standard getpwuid isn't thread
> safe? :)
http://www.lerctr.org:8458/en/man/html.3C/getpwent.3C.html
the above is the manual page as used on UnixWare. See the very end.
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