Re: win95 and pshared mutex support for pthreads

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:32:19PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:22:02PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:38:18PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >> The code is a little ugly, but it still passes all my testcases.
> >> 
> >> The ABI HAS NOT CHANGED. It may have to support pshared condition
> >> variables properly, but I wanted to get the win95 support submitted.
> >> 
> >> Rob
> >> 
> >> Thu Apr 19 20:22:00 2001  Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> 
> >>  * password.cc (getpwuid): Check for thread cancellation.
> >>  (getpwuid_r): Ditto.
> >>  (getpwname): Ditto.
> >>  (getpwnam_r): Ditto.
> >
> >Robert,
> >
> >may I ask why your new reentrant functions ignore the pw_gecos
> >field? You know that it's very important when using ntsec?
> >
> >Chris, I assume that it's not a showstopper but I will patch
> >it for 1.3.2.  My upcoming changes to the security code will
> >need reentrant getpwxxx and getgrxxx functions.
> 
> I assume that these are simple changes?  If so, go ahead and check them
> in now.  I can rerun the build for 1.3.1.

Ok, I will include the patches related to the string lengths as well.

Corinna