Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 06:08:09 +0800 From: "David Xu" <davidxu@freebsd.org> To: "Daniel Eischen" <eischen@vigrid.com>, "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Removal of bogus gethostbyaddr_r() Message-ID: <001e01c335e6$1ccca630$0701a8c0@tiger> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10306181413010.16088-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Eischen" <eischen@vigrid.com> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: <threads@freebsd.org>; "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:17 AM Subject: Re: Removal of bogus gethostbyaddr_r() > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > Any objections? > > > > > > Why is this bogus? Do we have another gethostbyaddr_r hiding > > > somewhere? > > > > It lies? (_r). > > If that's true, then it's a bug and eventually should > be fixed. Additionally, you can't go around removing > public interfaces without bumping library versions > (unless said interface hasn't seen a release yet). > I think those *_r interfaces are not very useful except bloating library. why do not improve non _r version to use thread local instead to make them reentrant between threads ? > -- > Dan Eischen > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-threads@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-threads > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-threads-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >home | help
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