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From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include netdb.h resolv.h src/lib/libc/include
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:03:46PM -0800, Brian Feldman wrote:
>   Make the resolver(3) and many associated interfaces much more reentrant.
>   The getaddrinfo(3), getipnodebyname(3) and resolver(3) can coincide now
>   with what should be totally reentrant, and h_errno values will now
>   be preserved correctly, but this does not affect interfaces such as
>   gethostbyname(3) which are still mostly non-reentrant.

Is there any chances to implement gethostbyname_r(3) (like in Solaris)? It 
will be very useful for milters, they often want it.

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Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/