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Date:      Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:56:53 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: thread safe functions missing ... ?
Message-ID:  <20030914035653.GA94639@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030913222303.H82880@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <20030913222303.H82880@ganymede.hub.org>

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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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