Do we need getpwuid_r?
Joerg Sonnenberger
joerg at britannica.bec.de
Fri Sep 22 14:35:21 PDT 2006
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:10:19PM -0700, walt wrote:
> I see that linux, NetBSD, and FreeBSD all have getpwuid_r in
> <pwd.h>, but we don't.
Getting all the database access etc. thread-safe is a bit of work noone
has done so far. Sicne noone has picked up the NSS-alike either, I don't
expect much to happen on that front...
> I ask because the recent pkgsrc upgrade to gnome 2.16 fails,
> and this seems to be the reason. (As an aside, I see that
> pwd.h on my linux machine is installed by the glibc package.)
What excatly? Can't remember any direct breakage related to that.
Joerg
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