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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
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Subject: thread safe functions missing ... ?
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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
Your getpwuid() is _not_ thread-safe