thread safety and host lookups

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 07:31:05PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> Hey folks.  I'm working on a port from Solaris to FreeBSD.  For the
> most part, things are pretty straightforward, but I can't seem to find
> the details on thread safety for some system calls.
> 
> gethostbyname_r() is the thread safe call that replaces
> gethostbyname() on Solaris.
> 
> Is there a similar alternative call in FreeBSD, or was the default
> system call modified to ensure thread safety?

Unfortunately FreeBSD does not support gethostbyname_r() at this time.
However, it looks like bind9 has an implementation.

Kris
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