Re: Do we need getpwuid_r?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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