On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:04:58PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Lee Kindness writes: > > > You don't... and you simply shouldn't care. If there is a_r version > > available then we should use it - even if the plain version is "safe". > > The problem with this is that the automatic determination (in configure) > whether there is a xxx_r() version is, in general, fragile. We cannot > rely on configure saying that xxx_r() doesn't exist, so the plain xxx() > should be good enough. Else, we'd be shipping claimed-to-be-thread-safe > libraries that might trigger bugs that will be hard to track down.
I think you missed a part of his email. He says that if xxx_r() isn't available, we should provide an xxx_r() ourself. Kurt ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
