Re: FreeBSD Thread-safe functions ...

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > 
> > After hearing that FreeBSD wasn't thread safe, I posted to the FreeBSD
> > lists to find out what is up ...
> > 
> > FreeBSD 5.x has a getpwuid_r function that should be used ... and, the
> > word I got from one of the developers was that getaddrinfo(3) should be
> > used instead of gethostbyname ...
> > 
> > Now, getpwuid_r is still not available in 4.x, so we still will fail over
> > there, and I've seen nothing to indicate that it will be MFCd down, but
> > getaddrinfo is available in both ...
> 
> OK, I have adjusted the thread test program so it has its own Makefile
> and is now in src/tools/thread.  I also added code so gethostbyname is
> tested only if getaddrinfo isn't present.
> 
> Would people please retest their operating sysystems using this program?
> I think we had a few OS's that failed the test originally because
> gethostbyname wasn't thread-safe, and that is probably not tested
> anymore on that OS.

Oops, I have a few more adjustments to make.  I now realize that to get
the thread flags from the port files to the Makefile, you have to run
configure and enable threads.  I will let you know when it is ready.

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