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

Philip Yarra <philip@utiba.com> writes:

> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 02:15 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> This would be a pretty short list unless I count wrong! This excludes all 
> releases of FreeBSD (and I'm willing to bet other BSDs), Solaris (at least 
> the old version I have), OSF, Linux, and who knows what else? MacOS X?

Uhm I stopped reading this thread a while back. Linux has all the reentrant
functions required like strerror_r, getpwnam_r, etc. Why do we think it
wouldn't pass?


> Are these non-threadsafe functions really going to be so heavily-used that we 
> can't live with the wrappers? I mean, AFAIK these threading issues are only 
> in ECPG and libpq - it's not like re-writing the backend code is required.

It's only libpq and ECPG where thread-safety is at all an issue.

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greg