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

Kurt Roeckx <q@ping.be>

From: Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

Cc: Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2003-08-31T18:15:43Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:04:58PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Lee Kindness writes:
> 
> > You don't... and you simply shouldn't care. If there is a_r version
> > available then we should use it - even if the plain version is "safe".
> 
> The problem with this is that the automatic determination (in configure)
> whether there is a xxx_r()  version is, in general, fragile.  We cannot
> rely on configure saying that xxx_r() doesn't exist, so the plain xxx()
> should be good enough.  Else, we'd be shipping claimed-to-be-thread-safe
> libraries that might trigger bugs that will be hard to track down.

I think you missed a part of his email.  He says that if xxx_r()
isn't available, we should provide an xxx_r() ourself.


Kurt