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On 2003.07.02 14:45:49 -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> On Monday 30 June 2003 14:39, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > 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?

Not yet.  Jacques Vidrine explained what would be required to do it, on
-threads about a week ago :

Msg-id: 20030623150627.GD82167@madman.celabo.org
or                                             =20
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D16837+0+/usr/local/www/db/tex=
t/2003/freebsd-threads/20!

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Simon L. Nielsen

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