Whilst looking at a thread safety issue in mod_fastcgi, i noticed there's some suspicious looking code in apache httpd project. server/mpm_common.c (2.2.17) has two functions ap_uname2id and ap_gname2id which call getpwnam and getgrnam, two non-reentrant functions. Comparing with typical apr code that tends to have an #ifdef to select function() vs function_r(). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Perhaps ap_uname2id and ap_gname2id are not executed concurrently by the current code base but if these are general purpose functions they should be more cautious/safe? Has the whole apache httpd 2.x project been scanned for use of non-reentrant function calls? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Email thread in dev mailing list - http://marc.info/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=129482822402732&w=2
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