Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:04:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexander Litvin <archer@whichever.org>, Andriy Gapon <agapon@excite.com> Subject: Re: Thread-safe resolver [patches for review] Message-ID: <3D584CF2.D5306D8B@mindspring.com> References: <20020812192250.4B81B2A7D6@canning.wemm.org>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > I also would like to hear from you whether or not you think that we > > need all those gethostbyXXX_r(3) functions. > > Yes. Because autoconf looks for them and will assume non-reentrancy if > they are not present. Also, for source compatability with linux and > solaris and just about everything else that implements this stuff. The > expectation is that gethostbyXXX is non-safe and that gethostbyXXX_r is > safe. If you can make the non_r versions safe then that is a bonus I guess. Autoconf is evil pure and simple, from the 8th dimension. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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