On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:21:21PM -0800, Doug MacEachern wrote:
> i seem to recall mention of apr_uuid having thread issues, but couldn't
> find anything in the STATUS file or archives. anyhoo, any thoughts on
> solving the race condition here:
>
> srclib/apr/misc/unix/getuuid.c:
>
> static int uuid_state_seqnum;
> static unsigned char uuid_state_node[NODE_LENGTH] = { 0 };
> ...
> static void init_state(void)
> {
> uuid_state_seqnum = true_random();
> get_pseudo_node_identifier(uuid_state_node);
> }
>
> APR_DECLARE(void) apr_uuid_get(apr_uuid_t *uuid)
> {
> ...
> if (!uuid_state_node[0])
> init_state();
Would apr_thread_once help here, in addition to the normal mutex routines?
-aaron
