--On Saturday, August 30, 2003 00:57:45 -0300 "Marc G. Fournier"
<scrappy@hub.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
>> Index: src/port/thread.c
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/port/thread.c,v
>> retrieving revision 1.4
>> diff -u -r1.4 thread.c
>> --- src/port/thread.c 16 Aug 2003 15:35:51 -0000 1.4
>> +++ src/port/thread.c 23 Aug 2003 04:29:15 -0000
>> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
>> pqGetpwuid(uid_t uid, struct passwd *resultbuf, char *buffer,
>> size_t buflen, struct passwd **result)
>> {
>> -#if defined(USE_THREADS) && defined(NEED_REENTRANT_FUNC_NAMES)
>> +#if defined(USE_THREADS) && (defined(NEED_REENTRANT_FUNC_NAMES) ||
>> defined(HAVE_GETPWUID_R))
>> /*
>> * Early POSIX draft of getpwuid_r() returns 'struct passwd *'.
>> * getpwuid_r(uid, resultbuf, buffer, buflen)
>> Index: src/template/unixware
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/template/unixware,v
>> retrieving revision 1.15
>> diff -u -r1.15 unixware
>> --- src/template/unixware 16 Aug 2003 15:35:51 -0000 1.15
>> +++ src/template/unixware 23 Aug 2003 04:29:15 -0000
>> @@ -10,5 +10,5 @@
>> fi
>>
>> SUPPORTS_THREADS=yes
>> -NEED_REENTRANT_FUNC_NAMES=yes
>> -THREAD_CFLAGS += -D_REENTRANT
>> +#NEED_REENTRANT_FUNC_NAMES=yes
>> +THREAD_CFLAGS="$THREAD_CFLAGS -D_REENTRANT -DHAVE_GETPWUID_R"
>
> 'K, my first question on this is shouldn't GETPWUID_R be checked for in
> configure, and not hard coded?
It's not checked for currently in configure, and doesn't get set. I'm not
an autoconf
maven.
>
> My second one is what exactly does this fix/accomplish? It looks to me
> like the result is the same, but I might be missing something obvious?
No, with the change to NEEDS_REENTRANT_FUNC_NAMES, without the ||
defined(HAVE_GETPWUID_R)
magic, we use getpwuid, and not getpwuid_r, which would break in a threaded
app.
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