Testers wanted: reentrant resolver

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

New and improved, my reentrant resolver patch even includes documentation!
What does it do, you ask?  Why, it simply makes tabbed browsing in Mozilla 
an order of magnitude faster!  How does it do that, you ask?  Well, it 
simply makes h_errno and the getaddrinfo(3)/getipnodebyname(3) functions 
thread-safe in a more intelligent way.  There is still a global lock around 
some pieces of data, but for the most part the global lock (which is what 
serialized EVERY hostname lookup in threaded programs) is not contested.  
It's still used for some NIS-related tasks, looking up hostents, and looking 
up server port names, but that's not comparatively very important.  The 
resolver itself is a thread-safe backend where each thread gets its own 
resolver that can run concurrently with the rest, so the time spent blocked 
waiting for DNS responses is gone.

Give it a try, and let me know how it works!
<URL:http://green.homeunix.org/~green/reentrant_resolver.patch>

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