On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > 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. > > Why do we have uthread_error.c then? Also it will add penalty to every > access to _res_data structure even in non-threaded case.
Take a look at everything else in libc. What about malloc? It does the same thing and checks __isthreaded. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
