Re: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-10 Thread Wes Peters
Greg Thompson wrote: > > i've just received confirmation from the author of the KAME resolution code > that it isn't at all thread safe: > > >Sure. As noted in name6.c, thread related stuff is not implemented yet. > >Since our resolver code based on bind4 doesn't aware thread safeness, > >all I

Re: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
>as long as nothing other than getipnodebyname and byaddr share resources >with those two, i'm safe if i just throw a mutex around my calls to >byname/addr. unfortuantely, this solution gets the "big suck" rating. if >the operating system ships with mechanisms that are documented as being >

RE: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Greg Thompson
>From: Charles Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Is there a reason that ADNS won't work for this? > >http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/ in addition to the other reasons mentioned, it won't work for me because it's not a part of the os. as an application developer, i'd expect the basic s

Re: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Dan Moschuk
| Is there a reason that ADNS won't work for this? | | http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/ Technically, no. Morally, it's GNU. :-) -- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Osca

Re: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Mike Bristow
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:07:01PM -0600, Charles Randall wrote: > Is there a reason that ADNS won't work for this? Firstly, adns doesn't do IPv6 (at least not yet, according to the web page you gave). Secondly, I'm not sure if it's thread safe (although being nice 'n async it's not hard to use

RE: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Charles Randall
t: Re: threadsafe name resolution | i've just received confirmation from the author of the KAME resolution code | that it isn't at all thread safe: | | >Sure. As noted in name6.c, thread related stuff is not implemented yet. | >Since our resolver code based on bind4 doesn't aware

Re: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Dan Moschuk
| i've just received confirmation from the author of the KAME resolution code | that it isn't at all thread safe: | | >Sure. As noted in name6.c, thread related stuff is not implemented yet. | >Since our resolver code based on bind4 doesn't aware thread safeness, | >all I can do now would be o