Testers wanted: reentrant resolver

[Brian F. Feldman]

Daniel Eischen <eischen at vigrid.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> 
> > Daniel Eischen <eischen at vigrid.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Could you take a look at my test program (that I put in src/tools/) to see 
> > > > if I made any pthreading errors?
> > > 
> > > Where in src/tools?
> > 
> > It's in src/tools/regression/gaithrstress.
> 
> Yes, it looks fine to me.
> 
> One other thing about your patch, probably minor.  Since h_error
> is only used for the main thread now, multithreaded applications
> that haven't been recompiled will still be referencing it
> instead of the new function.  This would seem to break the ABI,
> right?  These older applications will pick up the wrong h_error.

That's right; applications that use the mostly-deprecated h_errno API will 
have to be recompiled if they want to get the right error codes.  I don't 
see a way around that, so I'm not worried about it -- and I don't think any 
application that doesn't do its own big giant lock around all 
gethostbyname() calls should be using h_errno; if it's using getaddrinfo(), 
the correct API for accessing errors is there.

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