FreeTDS Development Group

[ZIGLIO Frediano <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it>]

> 
> On 26 Jun 2002, Stan Liberman wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 574400 - Several patches for thread safety in tds. Our apps 
> consistently
> > core dumped at attempt to login from several threads. 
> Pretty much just
> > replaced non thread-safe functions with their safe equivalents.
> 
> This gets into a sticky situation, older unices will not have the _r 
> versions of the calls, so we should be checking via autoconf 
> for their 
> existence and using only then.  So, something like 
> 
> #if HAVE_LOCALTIME_R
>       tm = localtime_r(&t, &res);
> #else
>       tm = localtime(&t);
> #endif
> 
> and in configure.in adding:
> 
> AC_CHECK_FUNCS(localtime_r)
> 
> Otherwise, I'm all for this one going in.
> 
You should apply patch #569044 too for thread safety.

freddy77

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