Problems running kinit on HP-UX 11.00, 11i

[Ken Raeburn]

On May 13, 2005, at 17:55, Sam Hartman wrote:
>     Albert> Per my post with the description of patch PHCO_22923, it
>     Albert> isn't broken.  This is how HP designed the stub functions.
>
> A design can be broken.
>
> I don't believe the implementation of pthread_once in the HP libc
> meets the API specification in POSIX.  That counts as broken in my
> book.

One could probably argue that there is a POSIX-compliant configuration, 
and additional vendor-specific configurations, and "cc" without 
"-lpthread" (or whatever) is one of the latter.  Still, it's pretty 
lame; but on the other hand, HP-UX isn't the only system that does this 
-- Solaris is similarly broken.

(At least as of POSIX.1-1996, you can't just say, "you left out the -mt 
option therefore we can do anything we want with pthread_* and still be 
compliant".  Without some magic compilation option, the implementation 
can choose not to define _POSIX_THREADS, but that doesn't let them 
screw up the function implementations.  Having _POSIX_THREADS defined 
mean the pthread functions are available and do the right thing.  
Having it *not* defined means *either* they're available and do the 
right thing, or they're not available.  Or, you're not complying with 
the POSIX spec.)

Ken