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? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"