Tom Lane wrote: > Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But what about kerberos: I'm a bit reluctant to add a forth mutex: what > > if kerberos calls gethostbyname or getpwuid internally? > > Wouldn't help anyway, if some other part of the app also calls kerberos. > I think we should just state that kerberos isn't thread safe and it > isn't our problem. > > For the same reason, the mutex in (eg) pqGethostbyname is an utter waste > of code space. It guarantees nothing. Furthermore, any machine that > claims to have a thread-safe libc will have either gethostbyname_r() > or a thread-safe implementation of gethostbyname(). There is no value > in our second-guessing this.
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