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

--On Saturday, August 30, 2003 00:51:01 -0400 Bruce Momjian
<pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> > Yes, and that is the complex part because _some_ non-*_r functions are
>> > thread-safe, and some are not. I have to determine if we have other
>> > such platforms before I figure out how to fix it in the cleanest way.
>> >
>> > In most platforms that are like this, I think, they have all the *_r
>> > functions even if all of them are not required.
>> well, this is not true on FreeBSD.
>>
>> it does NOT have gethostbyname_r (on 5.1-CURRENT as of last nite).
>>
>> It does have getpwuid_r and strerror_r.
>
> Yes, but it doesn't require those *_r functions. It uses a separate
> library. It has them around only for compatibility, or so I am told.
>
> Seems netbsd also needs them, but it seems it has them all.

The only two platforms I have are FreeBSD and UnixWare.

So, I can't help more here.

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