On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Attched please find two patches based on bin/29581 PR to make FreeBSD
> resolver thread-safe. They represent two approaches to reach this goal
> - the first is to introduce reentrant versions of the standard
> gethostbyXXX(3) APIs, similar to ones existing in other unices, and
> the second one is to make gethostbyXXX(3) returning data placed into
> per-thread storage when linked with libc_r. I like the latter approach
> more, since it doesn't introduce new non-standard APIs.
> 
> I would like to hear any comments and suggestions on the proposed
> patches, as well as to opinions about which path to chose.

Why do you need uthread_resolv.c?  You should be able to thread
calls by checking __isthreaded.  Just keep everything in libc.
If there are missing stubs for some pthread_* routines (I think
everything you need is in -current's libc), then add them.

-- 
Dan Eischen


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