Tom Lane wrote:
> Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> writes:
> > But what about kerberos: I'm a bit reluctant to add a forth mutex: what
> > if kerberos calls gethostbyname or getpwuid internally?
>
> Wouldn't help anyway, if some other part of the app also calls kerberos.
> I think we should just state that kerberos isn't thread safe and it
> isn't our problem.
>
> For the same reason, the mutex in (eg) pqGethostbyname is an utter waste
> of code space. It guarantees nothing. Furthermore, any machine that
> claims to have a thread-safe libc will have either gethostbyname_r()
> or a thread-safe implementation of gethostbyname(). There is no value
> in our second-guessing this.
I have implemented this in CVS.
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