Subject: Re: re-entrant libraries
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 05/21/1999 16:54:31
Darren Reed writes:
> are there any plans to implement reentrant verions of getpwent
> (i.e getpwent_r), etc?
> 
> if not, is it perceived to be something that needs looking at ?

yes, there is. i don't know how concrete, though.
(klaus & I discussed it a bit).

i'd like to work on getting the nsdispatch() stuff reentrant though;
that shouldn't be too much work.