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

Lee Kindness writes:

> Bruce Momjian writes:
>  > Right.  We can't assume because a *_r function is missing that the
>  > normal function is thread-safe.

> That's not our concern - if the OS isn't thread safe we can't do
> anything about it, and to worry about it is an enormous waste of
> development time.

There is a long way between configure not finding a particular *_r
function and the entire operating system not being thread-safe.  There are
many uncertainties along that way, and I believe my point was that the
only way we can get a degree of certainty about the result of a particular
build is that we keep a database of exactly what is required for
thread-safety on each platform.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net