Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 06:14:18 +0900 From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> To: "Greg Thompson" <johnnyteardrop@hotmail.com> Cc: crandall@matchlogic.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: threadsafe name resolution Message-ID: <200008092114.e79LEI610855@itojun.org> In-Reply-To: johnnyteardrop's message of Wed, 09 Aug 2000 14:36:40 EDT. <F39VkR7CBRnarL6ypUL000031b0@hotmail.com>
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>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 >thread-safe, they should be. if they're not, it should be clearly stated in >a bug report somewhere that this is the case. i have submitted a bug with >KAME. i hope they fix it soon. in the meantime, it'd be nice if freebsd >had an alternative. sorry for bad documentation, manpage should be updated to state "the current implementation is not thread safe" in BUGS section. itojun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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