| Well, I guess we might as well change the API, since everyone else does. Unless
| someone comes up with a bettter idea, of course :)
|
| -Joe
The API should not change. There is already enough descrepency between UNIXs
to warrant programs like autoconf, we should not introduce another.
We should introduce a gethostbyaddr_r function, which shouldn't be all that
though to implement.
>From the code that I looked at today, the problems lie inside of glibc. It
declares globally a few static variables that are used by the gethost*
functions. Obviously in a threaded environment, this is bad.
A nice fix would be to get rid of those variables entirely. A quicker fix
would be just to enclose those global variables in mutexes. Personally, I
like the nicer fix better, which will (unfortunately) involve rewriting most
of the frontends to the res_* functions.
If no one has any objections, I'd like to start on this tomorrow.
Thanks,
Dan
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