Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 07:18:54 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Multi-threaded or async Mozilla (NSPR, really) Message-ID: <20021222071854.A86914@sheol.localdomain>
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Hi all. If this isn't the right forum, please excuse me, and direct me to the correct group. Has anyone managed to hack a recent Mozilla release (say, 1.0 or later) to do async/threaded DNS lookups? Since gethostbyname() and related functions are in libc_r, I'm assuming it's doable. I've studied the configure scripts and tried a few hacks to them, tried the patch on Buzilla (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70213), and a few other things, to no avail. It appears to be a NSPR thang, and threading is supported on AIX and OSF. The easy hacks, setting _PR_HAVE_THREADSAFE_GETHOST and _PR_HAVE_GETHOST_R, as those systems do, don't seem to have any effect. Setting up the use of libc_r.h (after changing the appropriate function names in it) creates compile problems that lead me to believe that's the wrong approach. Has anyone pulled this off? I'm d*mn tired of waiting on a DNS lookup of toolbar.aol.com when at www.cnn.com. My local DNS server responds as I would expect with nslookup, so it isn't a local bind thang. I can't imagine what Moz is doing within it's DNS code, even with the serialized DNS lookups. If nslookup replies within fractions of a second, why doesn't Moz?? All-too-common caveat: I'm not subscribed, so please CC me in replies to the group (or visa-versa). Thanks, Dave -- ______________________ ______________________ \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ \________________/\ hawkeyd@visi.com /\________________/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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