gethostbyname_r

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:45:49PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> On Monday 30 June 2003 14:39, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:43:27PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anybody was working on an implementation of a
> > > reentrant gethostbyname_r function, mostly because it looks like
> > > mozilla/firebird will finally gain support for an async DNS thread
> > > in the near future. However, it is claimed in Mozilla's bug
> > > reporting system that FreeBSD 5.x doesn't have support for this.
> > > See
> > >
> > > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70213#c36
> > >
> > > A quick grep -r in /usr/src shows only hits in contrib, so it's
> > > probably true that it's not implemented.
> >
> > There was a bogus non-reentrant version half-implemented in libc in
> > both 4.x and 5.x, which I recently removed in 5.x.  I need to remove
> > it on 4.x as well.  General consensus seems to be that implementing
> > it properly is Hard.
> 
> Yes, it is, or at least was in 4.x.  I thought we got a shiny new 
> gethostbyname_r with Jacques Vidrine's nss implementation in 5.0, 
> though.  Is this not right?

AFAIK, it is not.

Kris
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