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

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-08-30T04:51:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > Yes, and that is the complex part because _some_ non-*_r functions are
> > thread-safe, and some are not.  I have to determine if we have other
> > such platforms before I figure out how to fix it in the cleanest way.
> >
> > In most platforms that are like this, I think, they have all the *_r
> > functions even if all of them are not required.
> well, this is not true on FreeBSD.
> 
> it does NOT have gethostbyname_r (on 5.1-CURRENT as of last nite).
> 
> It does have getpwuid_r and strerror_r.

Yes, but it doesn't require those *_r functions.  It uses a separate
library.  It has them around only for compatibility, or so I am told.

Seems netbsd also needs them, but it seems it has them all.

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