Re: FreeBSD/i386 thread test

-On [20030908 23:52], Peter Eisentraut (peter_e@gmx.net) wrote:
>Why would FreeBSD have a "library of thread-safe libc functions" (libc_r)
>if the functions weren't thread-safe?  I think the test is faulty.

Having libc_r is not a guarantee that all functions of libc are
represented in that library as thread-safe functions.

gethostbyname_r() is a notable reentrant function which is absent in
FreeBSD.

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