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

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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Philip Yarra <philip@utiba.com>, ohp@pyrenet.fr, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-09-10T04:12:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tripple-yuck.  :-)
> 
> It doesn't seem to me that we should take on the job of providing
> thread-safe implementations of basic libc functions.  If a particular
> OS cannot manage to offer that functionality, then we should mark it
> not-thread-safe and move on.  Persons unhappy with this labeling must
> take it up with their OS developers, not us.

Yep, that is one clear option.  It would certainly make my job easier.

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