Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:52:01 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: gethostbyname_r Message-ID: <20030702215201.GA82686@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200307021445.49545.wes@softweyr.com> References: <20030630144327.GB11983@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20030630213916.GA71908@rot13.obsecurity.org> <200307021445.49545.wes@softweyr.com>
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--r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:45:49PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > On Monday 30 June 2003 14:39, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:43:27PM +0200, 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=3D70213#c36 > > > > > > A quick grep -r in /usr/src shows only hits in contrib, so it's > > > probably true that it's not implemented. > > > > There was a bogus non-reentrant version half-implemented in libc in > > both 4.x and 5.x, which I recently removed in 5.x. I need to remove > > it on 4.x as well. General consensus seems to be that implementing > > it properly is Hard. >=20 > Yes, it is, or at least was in 4.x. I thought we got a shiny new=20 > gethostbyname_r with Jacques Vidrine's nss implementation in 5.0,=20 > though. Is this not right? AFAIK, it is not. Kris --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/A1QBWry0BWjoQKURAjh3AKCBYnAwDSqJOZ/wfZp61BovS3mSnwCgx0+/ gObL+hIQGApQJuTlJjg3XXM= =nWCu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3--
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