Re: libpq not reentrant

Il ven, 2002-01-18 alle 15:59, Tom Lane ha scritto:
> Federico Di Gregorio <fog(at)initd(dot)org> writes:
> > libpq claims to be reentrant; to put it shortly it isn't. the problem
> > arise when using crypt authentication. on the Linux/glibc2 arch, the
> > call to crypt() is not reentrant and crypt_r or DES/libcrypto crypt
> > should be used instead.
>
> Hmm. Good point; but crypt_r isn't portable, so we can't easily switch
> over to it. Thoughts?

i don't know about other OSs/libcs and if they are reentrant or not.
lets try to summarize (some help with people using postgres on other OSs
will be usefull here):

Linux/glibc
crypt not reentrant
crypt_r reentrant and always available
DES crypt reentrant if pgsql is compiled with ssl support

i can see ./configure trying to find a reentrant crypt and revert to a
not-reentrant one only as a last resort. as i said, i don't know about
other OSs, maybe OSs without glic/crypt_r already have a reentrant
version of crypt.

i can also try to patch libpq and the configure stuff to do that, if
you're interested in including such a patch in postgres.

ciao,
federico

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