
The change was made because a BSD/OS developer said flockfile was POSIX,
and pointed to something that suggested NetBSD supports it.  I will back
out the change.  We really don't need fseeko/ftello to be thread safe
anyway.


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Giles Lean wrote:
> 
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> The change in revision 1.9 of src/port/fseeko.c to include <pthread.h>
> and use flockfile() and funlockfile() on NetBSD causes the file not to
> compile:
> 
> 1. there is no <pthread.h> on any NetBSD release (yet)
> 
> 2. flockfile() and funlockfile() appear in <stdio.h> commented
>    out by #if 0 ... #endif and are not implemented.
> 
>    I'm not sure if I led you astray on the presence of these functions
>    on NetBSD.  My appologies if I did; a grep of /usr/include/*.h is
>    misleading.  Whatever POSIX extension they're part of is not yet
>    implemented on NetBSD.
> 
> The fix is to revert to revision 1.8.  I could send you a diff, but
> it's pretty boring. :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Giles
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:36:24 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: src/port/fseeko.c revision 1.9 broken on NetBSD