Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:32:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Sean Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gethostbyname_r Message-ID: <20030701102846.V12196@thor.farley.org> In-Reply-To: <20030630144327.GB11983@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20030630144327.GB11983@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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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 ----------------------- sean-freebsd@farley.org
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