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

--On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 19:53:38 +0200 Peter Eisentraut
<peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:

> 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.
Ok, now, is my statement from a SCO Developer good enough to get
thread-safety enabled
on UnixWare with only the getpwuid_r() function?

LER

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