Il ven, 2002-01-18 alle 15:59, Tom Lane ha scritto:
> Federico Di Gregorio <fog@initd.org> writes:
> > libpq claims to be reentrant; to put it shortly it isn't. the problem
> > arise when using crypt authentication. on the Linux/glibc2 arch, the
> > call to crypt() is not reentrant and crypt_r or DES/libcrypto crypt
> > should be used instead.
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> Hmm. Good point; but crypt_r isn't portable, so we can't easily switch
> over to it. Thoughts?
i don't know about other OSs/libcs and if they are reentrant or not.
lets try to summarize (some help with people using postgres on other OSs
will be usefull here):
Linux/glibc
crypt not reentrant
crypt_r reentrant and always available
DES crypt reentrant if pgsql is compiled with ssl support
i can see ./configure trying to find a reentrant crypt and revert to a
not-reentrant one only as a last resort. as i said, i don't know about
other OSs, maybe OSs without glic/crypt_r already have a reentrant
version of crypt.
i can also try to patch libpq and the configure stuff to do that, if
you're interested in including such a patch in postgres.
ciao,
federico
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Federico Di Gregorio
Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact fog@debian.org
INIT.D Developer fog@initd.org
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