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Re: win95 and pshared mutex support for pthreads
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- Subject: Re: win95 and pshared mutex support for pthreads
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:22:02 +0200
- References: <00d001c0c8bc$d9f12400$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:38:18PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> The code is a little ugly, but it still passes all my testcases.
>
> The ABI HAS NOT CHANGED. It may have to support pshared condition
> variables properly, but I wanted to get the win95 support submitted.
>
> Rob
>
> Thu Apr 19 20:22:00 2001 Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hotmail.com>
>
> * password.cc (getpwuid): Check for thread cancellation.
> (getpwuid_r): Ditto.
> (getpwname): Ditto.
> (getpwnam_r): Ditto.
Robert,
may I ask why your new reentrant functions ignore the pw_gecos
field? You know that it's very important when using ntsec?
Chris, I assume that it's not a showstopper but I will patch
it for 1.3.2. My upcoming changes to the security code will
need reentrant getpwxxx and getgrxxx functions.
Corinna
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