FreeTDS Development Group

["Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org>]

I think thread safety should default to off for the near term.  There are
several broken implementations of gethostbyname_r() and other on some
platforms.  They're old and you generally know if you have one.  The
bigger reason is that I'd like to get some testing in on this on a larger
variety of platforms before turning it loose on the users at large.

Brian

> This patch (to configure.in) just add these line to it
> 
> dnl Enable or disable thread safety
> AC_ARG_ENABLE(threadsafe,
>   [  --enable-threadsafe     compile for thread safetiness
> [default=yes]])
> if test "$enable_threadsafe" != "no" ; then
>         CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE"
> fi
> 
> It simple define _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE for CC command line
> enabling thread safe.
> Note that thread safe is enable for default with this patch (it check
> for "no" disabling feature).
> Do you think this option should disabled by default?
> Note also that function like getaddrbyname are thread safe on some
> system (I know win32, it use a buffer for every thread).
> 
> freddy77