Lee Kindness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane writes: > > Okay, so it seems -D_REENTRANT is the appropriate fix. > > > > We could either add that to the template/solaris file, or just add a > > note to FAQ_Solaris advising that it be added to the configure switches > > if people intend to use libpq in threaded programs. Is there any > > cost or downside to just adding it always in template/solaris? > > However, _REENTRANT is not a Solarisism... On all (recent) UNIX > systems it toggles on correct handling for thread specific instances > of historically global variables (eg errno). It should be considered > for all platforms if libpq is intended to be used from threaded > programs. > > You'll probably find Tomas's code breaks on Linux too...
Actually, I've tried it in Linux, and it works there. Might be that the recv() doesn't return -1 when trying again in Linux. In that case, for this particular problem, it wouldn't matter if it's reentrant or not. Tomas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
