On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:53:29AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>This has been there forever, I would not delay the release of 1.3.19
Did I say I was delaying anything?
>By the way, I wrote the internal_get{pw,gr} routines having in mind
>that they could be extended to handle those multiple access issues,
>avoiding to have to set and release locks in routines outside of
>passwd.cc and group.cc (with a few exceptions).
You'd need a per-thread buffer to accomplish that. I assume that
is what you had in mind.
For the record, the current code isn't even signal safe, AFAICT.
I really should have dealt with this a while ago. I wonder how
many inexplicable "cygwin hangs" issues this is responsible for.
cgf
