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Date:      Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:39:59 +0100
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        dan@trinsec.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads.
Message-ID:  <E11EBCB-000MD1-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990809212147.A47699@trinsec.com>
References:  <199908092322.TAA68246@whizzo.transsys.com> <199908100053.RAA28787@home.humboldt1.com> <199908100053.RAA28787@home.humboldt1.com>

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Dan Moschuk <dan@trinsec.com> wrote:
>
>A quicker fix would be just to enclose those global variables in
>mutexes.

God, no. The resolver is already stupidly unparallelizable -- there's
no need to make it thread-resistant too.

Tony.
-- 
f.a.n.finch    dot@dotat.at    fanf@demon.net    e pluribus unix


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