> From: Chris Parker > Sent: Friday, 7 November 2003 9:06 AM > At 02:44 PM 11/6/2003, Paul Hampson wrote: > > > From: Chris Parker > > > Sent: Friday, 7 November 2003 3:09 AM
> > > At 10:02 AM 11/6/2003, Kristina Pfaff-Harris wrote: > > > >You might also consider trying OpenBSD or FreeBSD instead of a Linux > > > >distribution. > > > There are some thread issues on Free/Open BSD at the moment I believe > > > so you might not get the best performance out of FreeRADIUS on those > > > systems. > > > The latest FreeBSD release adds some previously missing functions to > > > FreeBSD ( namely a working threadsafe get(host|name)by*_r() ). The > > > work to add that to the configure/build process has not been done > > > yet however. > >Do we have any details on that? I'd love to get at least _some_ version > >of FreeBSD working thread-safely... > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-July/001859.html > This was forwarded by a friend who is a FreeBSD advocate when I > complained about the lack of thread-safeness ( and cross-platformness ) > of the resolver libs on FreeBSD. I've read this, and this is what caused me to decide it _wasn't_ thread safe. They got the shiny new function, but it isn't thread safe and as we saw over the 0.9.2 release cycle, it doesn't even link properly. -- Paul "TBBle" Hampson Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a sidewalk near Portland State University someone wrote `Trust Jesus', and someone else wrote `But Cut the Cards'. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
