Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:43:38PM -0400, Benjamin Sugars wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> 
> > Ah, that. Perl really ought to be calling the threadsafe version of a 
> > routine if the default isn't.
> 
> Are you saying "ought to" in the sense of "that's what it should do in
> order to be correct" or "ought to" in the sense of "that's what it's
> supposed to be doing today and if it's not it's a bug?"

The "today" implementation of Perl most definitely isn't calling
getpwnam_r() et alia, and Dan is very aware of the fact :-)
(reference: the Todo file)

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