Re: [pcp] Python code vs local: host connections

[Dave Brolley <brolley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/17/2013 07:43 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
>
> > > > 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[...]
> > > [...]
> > *nod* - sounds good to me.  (Dave?)
> RFC: commit 52979b0 in pcpfans.git fche/dev drafts this proposal.
I'm confused. fche and I discussed this on IRC and (Nathan later 
approved) and that the slightly leaky solution was chosen because it is 
thread safe. What's the point of replacing one thread-unsafe solution 
(race) with another one (static buffer)? Is correctness not a higher 
priority?
Dave