>as long as nothing other than getipnodebyname and byaddr share resources
>with those two, i'm safe if i just throw a mutex around my calls to
>byname/addr. unfortuantely, this solution gets the "big suck" rating. if
>the operating system ships with mechanisms that are documented as being
>thread-safe, they should be. if they're not, it should be clearly stated in
>a bug report somewhere that this is the case. i have submitted a bug with
>KAME. i hope they fix it soon. in the meantime, it'd be nice if freebsd
>had an alternative.
sorry for bad documentation, manpage should be updated to state
"the current implementation is not thread safe" in BUGS section.
itojun
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