---Dan Moschuk said: > > | 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. That's what I meant by an API change. Sorry for not being clearer. However, if you can roll in reentrancy without having to add the _r functions, that would save some sweat on the programmers' side. >>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. > Go for it! Someone needs to. :)
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