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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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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

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