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

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Lee Kindness writes:
> 
> > You don't... and you simply shouldn't care. If there is a_r version
> > available then we should use it - even if the plain version is "safe".
> 
> The problem with this is that the automatic determination (in configure)
> whether there is a xxx_r()  version is, in general, fragile.  We cannot
> rely on configure saying that xxx_r() doesn't exist, so the plain xxx()
> should be good enough.  Else, we'd be shipping claimed-to-be-thread-safe
> libraries that might trigger bugs that will be hard to track down.
> 
> I don't see any other solution than keeping a database of NEED_XXX_R for
> each platform and then requiring these functions to show up before we
> declare a library to be thread-safe.  So far we're only dealing with three
> functions, to it should be doable.

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

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