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

Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-08-30T03:57:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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?

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?