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authordkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2012-07-16 22:40:10 (GMT)
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[Bug 3544683]: Backport of reentrancy fix for super-POSIX correctness of the
passwd/group access functions.
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+2012-07-16 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net>
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+ * unix/tclUnixCompat.c (TclpGetPwNam, TclpGetPwUid, TclpGetGrNam)
+ (TclpGetGrGid): [Bug 3544683]: Use the elaborate memory management
+ scheme outlined on http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_328.txt
+ to handle Tcl's use of standard reentrant versions of the passwd/group
+ access functions so that everything can work on all BSDs. Problem
+ identified by Stuart Cassoff.
+
2012-07-11 Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sf.net>
* win/tclWinReg.c: [Bug #3362446]: registry keys command fails