thread safe functions missing ... ?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Sep 13 20:56:58 PDT 2003


On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 10:24:52PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> Can anyone comment on the following results from running a test program
> we've writen for PostgreSQL?  Should the following be thread-safe, either
> as themselves, or a different function we should be calling?
> 
> 
>  Your gethostbyname() is _not_ thread-safe

There is no thread-safe implementation on FreeBSD.

> Your getpwuid() is _not_ thread-safe

getpwuid_r()

Kris
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