Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 06:13:29 -0700 (PDT) From: jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/18481: gethostbyname_r? thread-safety status in man pages? Message-ID: <20000510131329.0ABA637B58D@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 18481 >Category: misc >Synopsis: gethostbyname_r? thread-safety status in man pages? >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: wish >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed May 10 06:20:00 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: jan grant >Release: Various (2.2.8, 3.3-4, 4 stable) >Organization: university of bristol >Environment: >Description: Request for enhancement, really. 1. gethostbyname isn't reentrant. Other platforms offer gethostbyname_r, etc. Any chance of these? 2. there's no thread-safety status information in the man pages; it would be really good to see this included. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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