[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#340601: ldapsearch hangs when using ldap for /etc/hosts

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> Wow, ok, I'm very not happy with this answer.  I think that *all*
> libraries should have thread-safe APIs; and aside from this minor
> blemish, libldap_r appears to already be a perfectly good thread-safe,
> reentrant library, supported by upstream or not.
>
> We have the following callers using libldap in Debian which also have
> need of thread-safety and currently take no additional steps to ensure
> libldap is thread-safe:

Quick question here: Do you (or anyone else on the list) know what Red Hat
does with all of these software packages, many of which they also ship?
Are they also ignoring upstream and linking to libldap_r, or are they
doing something else?

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>