Re: Python code vs local: host connections

[fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

I wrote:

> While the new implementation of pmGetContextHostName does a strdup,
> it's not documented to do that.  [...]

Perhaps we could backtrack on that, and instead use a static char[...]
in that function; strcpy strings into that, return its pointer.
Thread-unsafe, yeah, but it would still be an improvement over the
status quo ante, because the race conditions there were worse:
pointers into dynamic pmcd context objects were being returned.  With
the static-char[] case, at worst multithreaded apps could suffer from
some string content corruption.

- FChE