Bruce Momjian writes:> Lee Kindness wrote:> > No, it's not. Using the _r functions on such systems is BETTER because> >
theAPI is clean and the function can be implmented in a reentrant and> > thread-safe fashion wuithout the need for
threadlocal storage or> > mutex locking.> I don't care about overhead at this point. These functions are rarely>
called.
Nor do I, but there is no requirement or point in using the
traditional interface over the _r one then the traditional one is
known to be thread-safe. It only adds additional complexity.
L.
