Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:39:16 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gethostbyname_r Message-ID: <20030630213916.GA71908@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030630144327.GB11983@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20030630144327.GB11983@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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--3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:43:27PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I was wondering if anybody was working on an implementation of a reentrant > gethostbyname_r function, mostly because it looks like mozilla/firebird w= ill > 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 >=20 > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D70213#c36 >=20 > A quick grep -r in /usr/src shows only hits in contrib, so it's probably > true that it's not implemented. There was a bogus non-reentrant version half-implemented in libc in both 4.x and 5.x, which I recently removed in 5.x. I need to remove it on 4.x as well. General consensus seems to be that implementing it properly is Hard. Kris --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/AK4EWry0BWjoQKURAuUaAJ90TecvYlHoE0MnceEZ33VT7izGhACdHVhl zh2HqsPp2ITjZAuTG/dv+do= =PH0f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz--
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