Re: removal of getpwuid from gtk/gtkfilesel.c

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de> writes:

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> Hi,
> 
> couldn't we remove the use of getpwuid from gtk/gtkfilesel.c to avoid
> duplicating the MT safety mess from glib/gutils.c. getpwuid is only used
> here to find the home dir, which is also done in gutils.c. Atached is a
> patch to do that.

Hmmm, don't the calls to getpwnam just underneath (in the
~user part) have the the same reentrancy concerns as
getpwuid?
                                        Owen