Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:09:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Jev <jev@ecad.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gethostbyname_r() fbsd equiv? Message-ID: <3D820DD0.985F9C66@mindspring.com> References: <20020913145830.GB41842@ecad.org> <3D820700.DB53B0F9@mindspring.com> <20020913160214.GB42538@ecad.org>
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Jev wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 08:40:48AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > The "real" gethostbyname_r() that takes 3 params is what the code Im > attempting to port uses. As I implied earlier, my C competence is far > below par, so for me to write this code would be far for trivial for > _me_ :) This is the HP/UX or AIX version of the interface. > As for paying someone to implement it, Im porting the software for fun, > and spending cash conflicts with my idea of fun :) The reason I even suggested it is that the effort is unlikely to find its way into FreeBSD proper, so it's pretty much throw-away code that would take someone some time to do, and after which, they would not reap any additional benefit from having done the work. That translates to "pay-for-pain" work. 8-) > Im porting partysip, which is a SIP proxy/registrar amongst other > things. I think it would be pretty nasty kludge to have the port depend > on squid. Or do you suggest that I pull squids implementation of > gethostbyname_r() and make a patch for partysip? (actually that seems > obvious now). > I think there may be license conflicts there as the particular part of > code is LGPL. Licensing issues are not my forte nor my interest :) You'd need to distribute them as seperate things, to save the License problems, if you went that route, which is why I cautioned you. As a seperate thing with another implementation available that wasn't under GPL, the fact that the interface was available from a non-GPL source would save you, as long as you didn't distribute it as part of it. I hate licenses that do that. 8-(. You might be able to find a "partsip person" who's willing to do the work for you, if you can lay it off as a shared interest thing. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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