From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 08:32:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDA337B401 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 08:32:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.farley.org (adsl-67-64-95-201.dsl.austtx.swbell.net [67.64.95.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A8BF43FAF for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 08:32:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Received: from thor.farley.org (ofmpvvj7uic9susi@thor.farley.org [IPv6:2002:4340:5fc9::5]) by mail.farley.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h61FWvMp095386; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:32:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Received: from thor.farley.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thor.farley.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h61FWuPC012294; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:32:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Received: from localhost (sean@localhost)h61FWtYL012291; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:32:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thor.farley.org: sean owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:32:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Sean Farley X-X-Sender: sean@thor.farley.org To: Stijn Hoop In-Reply-To: <20030630144327.GB11983@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Message-ID: <20030701102846.V12196@thor.farley.org> References: <20030630144327.GB11983@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gethostbyname_r X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 15:33:00 -0000 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