On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Stijn Hoop wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anybody was working on an implementation of a
> reentrant gethostbyname_r function, mostly because it looks like
> mozilla/firebird will finally gain support for an async DNS thread in
> the near future. However, it is claimed in Mozilla's bug reporting
> system that FreeBSD 5.x doesn't have support for this. See
>
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70213#c36

Here is my comment on it (in mid-June):
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70213#c40

Hopefully, they will use getaddrinfo().  I believe the person, Steve
Freeland, doing the patch is considering using it for FreeBSD.

Sean
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