Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:19:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Dan Moschuk <dan@trinsec.com>, ognir@humboldt1.com, louie@TransSys.COM, steve_tarkalson@hotmail.com, bmcgover@cisco.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads. Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9908100915410.13008-100000@luna> In-Reply-To: <37B04DF4.136D3870@softweyr.com>
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On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Dan Moschuk wrote: > > > > | > Yeah, that IS a horrible idea of mine. :) Changing the API should be a last > > | > resort, though, since we don't want to introduce to many FreeBSDisms into the > > | > already-fragmented-enough Unix world. > > | > > > | > Just a thought, how does Linux's GNU libc handle gethostby* in threaded apps? > > | > > | Probably the way POSIX specifies, which would certainly be *our* target. > > > > And does POSIX specify it? > > You didn't get the message with the function prototypes? I can send it again. > This would be the *correct* way to implement thread-safe get*by* calls, since > any existing threaded code (Solaris, Linux, etc.) will use these interfaces. Small detail, but having ported a multi-threaded library to Linux either Linux is not posix-compliant or everyone else (solaris and others) is not. It's _r API is quite different. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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