critical impact:

Unclassified _r APIs - not supported (CrUn76)

Problem description

The identified Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) exist on Tru64 UNIX for backward compatibility only. These APIs will not be available on HP-UX.

Reentrant version of many APIs have been declared obsolete, although they are still available for compatibility on current versions of Tru64 UNIX. Reentrant versions of these APIs will not be provided on HP-UX.

Identifiers

drand48_r	jrand48_r	seed48_r
ecvt_r	lcong48_r	setstate_r
erand48_r	lrand48_r	srand48_r
fcvt_r	mrand48_r	srandom_r
getdiskbyname_r	nrand48_r
initstate_r	random_r

See also

• Background information on threads impacts
• Background information on unclassified impacts
• drand48_r(3)
• ecvt_r(3)
• erand48_r(3)
• fcvt_r(3)
• getdiskbyname(3)
• initstate_r(3)
• jrand48_r(3)
• lcong48_r(3)
• lrand48_r(3)
• mrand48_r(3)
• nrand48_r(3)
• random_r(3)
• seed48_r(3)
• setstate_r(3)
• srand48_r(3)
• srandom_r(3)

Solution description

See the manpages to determine the appropriate replacement API.

In most cases, using the non-reentrant version of the API will have the desired effect. The non-reentrant version is thread safe. Therefore, the reentrant versions are no longer necessary in multi-threaded applications.

See also

• drand48(3C)
• ecvt(3C)
• erand48(3C)
• fcvt(3C)
• getdiskbyname(3C)
• jrand48(3C)
• lcong48(3C)
• lrand48(3C)
• mrand48(3C)
• nrand48(3C)
• seed48(3C)
• srand48(3C)
• initstate(3M)
• random(3M)
• setstate(3M)
• srandom(3M)

Problem summary