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Re: FreeBSD/i386 thread test

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-09-08T21:53:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Bruce Momjian writes:

> > Both gethostbyname() and getpwuid() have no _r equivalents on
> > FreeBSD-STABLE, ergo no thread-safe functions of these.
>
> So you don't have all the *_r functions, and your non-*_r functions
> aren't thread-safe.  Should we disable theading on FreeBSD?  Seems so.

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.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net