After hearing that FreeBSD wasn't thread safe, I posted to the FreeBSD lists to find out what is up ...
FreeBSD 5.x has a getpwuid_r function that should be used ... and, the word I got from one of the developers was that getaddrinfo(3) should be used instead of gethostbyname ... Now, getpwuid_r is still not available in 4.x, so we still will fail over there, and I've seen nothing to indicate that it will be MFCd down, but getaddrinfo is available in both ... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
