Re: Unixware Patch (Was: Re: Beta2 Tag'd and Bundled ...)

Bruce Momjian writes:
 > Lee Kindness wrote:
 > > No, it's not. Using the _r functions on such systems is BETTER because
 > > the API is clean and the function can be implmented in a reentrant and
 > > thread-safe fashion wuithout the need for thread local storage or
 > > mutex locking.
 > I don't care about overhead at this point.  These functions are rarely
 > called.

Nor do I, but there is no requirement or point in using the
traditional interface over the _r one then the traditional one is
known to be thread-safe. It only adds additional complexity.

L.