2009/12/11 Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org>: >> I did a quick perusal of the source (and compared it against the NetBSD >> tree) and it looks like the easiest way to >> make getaddrinfo() thread safe is to TURN OFF Yellow Pages (pee). >> >> NetBSD changes the only "variable" globals to local (in they yp code by >> removing the caching optimization) and puts >> a mutex in the yp code to protect its global variables. >> >> I would do the work but I can't test it (I have refused to use YP for >> the last 17.5 years). If someone volunteers to >> test, I'll rework the code. > > It would be silly to turn off YP to "solve" this. > > It's much like saying that the simplest way to avoid children being > hurt in car accidents during their teens is to abort them at birth. > > YP is good stuff. It is going to get us LDAP for nearly free. >
Indeed. far more sane to just make YP thread safe... Then we wouldn't have to abort anything. (Won't someone think of the children!)
