-On [20030908 23:52], Peter Eisentraut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Why would FreeBSD have a "library of thread-safe libc functions" (libc_r) >if the functions weren't thread-safe? I think the test is faulty.
Having libc_r is not a guarantee that all functions of libc are represented in that library as thread-safe functions. gethostbyname_r() is a notable reentrant function which is absent in FreeBSD. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(at)wxs.nl> / asmodai PGP fingerprint: 2D92 980E 45FE 2C28 9DB7 9D88 97E6 839B 2EAC 625B http://www.tendra.org/ | http://www.in-nomine.org/~asmodai/diary/ Character is what you are in the dark... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly