Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 14:36:40 EDT From: "Greg Thompson" <johnnyteardrop@hotmail.com> To: crandall@matchlogic.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: threadsafe name resolution Message-ID: <F39VkR7CBRnarL6ypUL000031b0@hotmail.com>
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>From: Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com> > >Is there a reason that ADNS won't work for this? > >http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/ in addition to the other reasons mentioned, it won't work for me because it's not a part of the os. as an application developer, i'd expect the basic services to work without me having to grab random packages to solve already solved problems. someone else pointed out that the old gethostbyname/addr pair isn't threadsafe. i realize this. what i was suggesting is that someone could perhaps implement gethostbyname_r and gethostbyaddr_r. call these a hack if you will, but they solve the problem just fine on other platforms. as long as nothing other than getipnodebyname and byaddr share resources with those two, i'm safe if i just throw a mutex around my calls to byname/addr. unfortuantely, this solution gets the "big suck" rating. if the operating system ships with mechanisms that are documented as being thread-safe, they should be. if they're not, it should be clearly stated in a bug report somewhere that this is the case. i have submitted a bug with KAME. i hope they fix it soon. in the meantime, it'd be nice if freebsd had an alternative. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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